Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference: the prince obeys the law, and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
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The first complete political treatise of the Latin Middle Ages — a statesman's book written by a working diplomat. It anatomizes the court's flatterers and hunters, describes the commonwealth as a body whose feet are the peasants and whose soul is religion, and argues, carefully but unmistakably, that a tyrant who tramples the law may lawfully be resisted.