Isocrates On the Peace 91

[91] But, heedless of these lessons, those who came after them desired, not to rule but to dominate ¹ —words which are thought to have the same meaning, although between them there is the utmost difference. For it is the duty of those who rule to make their welfare, ² whereas it is a habit of those who dominate to provide pleasures for themselves through the labors and hardships of others. But it is in the nature of things that those who attempt a despot’s course must encounter the disasters which befall despotic power ³ and be afflicted by the very things which they inflict upon others. And it is just this which has happened in the case of Athens;