“This and no other is the root fromwhich a tyrant springs; when hefirst appears he is a protector.”

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.”

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

“What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”