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To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

— John Milton Paradise Lost (1667)

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Compare: "With the proud disdain of a tyrant he chose to rejoice over his subjects rather than to be a subject himself", Augustine on Satan in The City of God (Penguin Classics translation by Henry S. Bettenson)

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