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 1     IV, XII|     superiority possessed by the oligarchs.~The legislator should always
 2     IV, XV |     office; for the wives of the oligarchs are too fine to be controlled.~
 3      V, I  |         in all things; while the oligarchs, under the idea that they
 4      V, I  |         the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves
 5      V, I  |     danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning
 6      V, VI | oligarchies: (1) First, when the oligarchs oppress the people, for
 7      V, VI |       attacked and conquered the oligarchs, who were divided, and division
 8      V, VI |          personal rivalry of the oligarchs, which leads them to play
 9      V, VI |         a) he practices upon the oligarchs themselves (for, although
10      V, VI |        Four Hundred); or (b) the oligarchs may play the demagogue with
11      V, VI |      outside the government, the oligarchs flatter the people in order
12      V, VI |    oligarchy also occur when the oligarchs waste their private property
13      V, VI |      Sometimes a party among the oligarchs try directly to create a
14      V, VI |         to trust the people, the oligarchs are compelled to hire mercenaries,
15      V, VI |        of tyrants. Sometimes the oligarchs, fearing this danger, give
16      V, VI | overthrow of one party among the oligarchs by another. Of quarrels
17      V, VII|        of the guards kept by the oligarchs, until those who had too
18      V, IX |       just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintaining
19      V, IX |     perform the actions in which oligarchs or democrats delight, but
20     VI, III|        which the majority agree, oligarchs that to which the wealthier
21     VI, VII|        the fashion of our modern oligarchs, who are as covetous of