For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.