"He who is the real tyrant,
whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise
the greatest adulation and servility, and to be the flatterer of the
vilest of mankind. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy,
and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to
inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear
and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he
resembles."
-- Plato's Republic, Book IX
