When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.