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On this head Plato also afterwards wrote to him,1 in a tone almost prophetic, that he should be on his guard against self-will, which was a
‘companion of solitude.’
2 However, at this time, though circumstances led men to think him of more value than any one else, and the only or the chief supporter and guardian of the storm-tossed tyranny, he knew that it was not out of goodwill, but against the wishes of the tyrant and owing to his needs, that he was first and greatest.
1 Epist. iv. ad fin.
2 Cf. the Coriolanus, xv. 4.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
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