For truly such close communications with tyranny corrupt good constitutions.

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) Greek orator and statesman
Second Philippic, Sec. 21 (344 BC) [tr. Vince (1930)]
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Alt. trans.: "For those close and intimate alliances with despots are never safe to free states."

 
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