“So, Damocles, since this life delights you, do you wish to taste it yourself and make trial of my fortune?”

— Dionysius I of Syracuse

As quoted by Cicero, in Tusculan disputations 5.61 as translated by Gavin Betts http://www.livius.org/sh-si/sicily/sicily_t11.html

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Sicilian tyrant -430–-367 BC

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