After a while he is driven out, but comes back, in spite of his enemies, a tyrant full grown.
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[“Whilst the fare’s paying, and the mule is being harnessed, a whole hour’s time is past.”--Horace, Sat. i. 5, 13.]
The Master said of Tsze-chien, 'Of superior virtue indeed is such a man! If there were not virtuous men in Lu, how could this man have acquired this character?'
An easy question! Nay, rather, Socrates, the proverb holds that hard is the good.
This, I said, is he who begins to make a party against the rich?
Essays of Montaigne (Book I) — Chapter 39: Chapter 30: That We Are To Avoid Pleasures, Even At The Expense Of Life (part 7/8)
The Master said of Kung-ye Ch'ang that he might be wived; although he was put in bonds, he had not been guilty of any crime. Accordingly, he gave him his own daughter to wife. 2. Of Nan Yung he said that if the country were well governed he would not be out of office, and if it were ill-governed, he would escape punishment and disgrace. He gave him the daughter of his own elder brother to wife.
Once more then, O my friend, we have alighted upon an easy question—whether the soul has these three principles or not?
And so of the individual; we may assume that he has the same three principles in his own soul which are found in the State; and he may be rightly described in the same terms, because he is affected in the same manner?
And a State was thought by us to be just when the three classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain other affections and qualities of these same classes?
“Dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur, Tota abit hora.”
And the protector of the people is like him; having a mob entirely at his disposal, he is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen; by the favourite method of false accusation he brings them into court and murders them, making the life of man to disappear, and with unholy tongue and lips tasting the blood of his fellow citizens; some he kills and others he banishes, at the same time hinting at the abolition of debts and partition of lands: and after this, what will be his destiny? Must he not either perish at the hands of his enemies, or from being a man become a wolf—that is, a tyrant?
The Analects — Chapter 5: Book V: Kung-Ye Ch'Ang
The just man then, if we regard the idea of justice only, will be like the just State?
The Romans used to pay the watermen their fare at their first stepping into the boat, which we never do till after landing:
The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Did you never hear it?
The Master said, 'Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbors.'
I proceeded to ask: When two things, a greater and less, are called by the same name, are they like or unlike in so far as they are called the same?
How then does a protector begin to change into a tyrant? Clearly when he does what the man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of Lycaean Zeus.
That will be in regular course; let us do as you say.