Plato quote about appearance from The Republic - This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.
 Plato, The Republic. copy citation

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Author Plato
Source The Republic
Topic appearance protection tyrany
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Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm

Context


Then come impeachments and judgments and trials of one another.
True.
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.
Yes, that is their way.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.
Yes, that is quite clear.
How then does a protector begin to change into a tyrant? Clearly when he does what the man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of Lycaean Zeus.
What tale?” source

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