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“have something of this
tyrannical temper?” “Yes, he has.”
“And again the madman, the deranged man, attempts and expects to
rule over not only men but gods.” “Yes indeed, he
does,” he said. “Then a man becomes tyrannical in the
full sense of the word, my friend,” I said, “when either
by nature or by habits or by both he has become even as the drunken, the
erotic, the maniacal.” “Assuredly.”“Such, it seems, is his origin and
character,1 but what is his manner of
life?” “As the wits say,
1 Cf. Adam ad loc., who insists it means his origin as well as that of others, and says his character is still to be described. But it has been in C and before.
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