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but the passion that dwells
in him as a tyrant will live in utmost anarchy and lawlessness, and, since
it is itself sole autocrat, will urge the polity,1 so to speak, of him in whom it
dwells2 to dare anything and
everything in order to find support for himself and the hubbub of his
henchmen,3 in part introduced from outside by
evil associations, and in part released and liberated within by the same
habits of life as his. Is not this the life of such a one?”
“It is this,” he said. “And if,” I
said, “there are only a few of this kind in a city,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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