Cyrus the Great:

I sought to relieve their (the people's) weariness and ease their burden.

— Cyrus the Great Ancient

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire

From the Cyrus Cylinder, referring to his policies to alleviate suffering in Babylon.

c. 539 BCE

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