The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. …This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
More Plato Quotes
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
