Tyrant Quotes
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We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.
