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Sanatan Dharma

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Book 8 Chapter II Paragraph 11

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 8 - Concerning Vices and Calamities / Chapter II · Verse Paragraph 11

arthasastraarthashastrakautilyachanakyabook-8

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My teacher says that a people, even if interested in having a weak king, hardly allow room for the intrigues of a weak but high-born person to be their king; but that if they desire power, they will easily yield themselves to the intrigues of a strong but base-born person to be their king.