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. -Plato

 

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.


-Plato
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This quote is just one of 81 total Plato quotes in our collection. Plato is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Plato

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato