He’ll try to help himself to his family’s wealth. When that dries up, his entourage will howl & he’ll want to placate them by getting what he needs through force or else he’ll be in torment & agony. Eventually, the money will run out & he’ll start borrowing.Tyrants get called drunk with power or madmen. Overactive libido often gets compared to tyranny.Any desires or opinions with a decent reputation or feelings of shame are dismissed & all discipline is thrown out the window, & only madness remains. His master passion runs wild & goes crazy.His friends plant in him the need to be like them. This guy has a son who is also taken to pleasure & fulfilling his unnecessary desires.Although he’s not as bad as his friends, he is pushed away by his father & dragged away by his friends. But this man has surrounded himself with people with sophisticated tastes & desires, & followers their ways because of his father’s stinginess.Our Democratic man was produced by an economical father focused on business & who had no use for unnecessary desires.

Even in the seemingly most respectable man is a terrible & immoral type of desire that shows up particularly in dreams.A sound & disciplined man has his desires neither starved nor indulged, so they don’t overpower his reason, especially if he’s not in complete control, or distract him from important & good things.There is nothing shameful that these desires won’t try to pull off. Maybe we’re all born with them but law disciplines them with the help of reason. Some unnecessary desires & pleasures are lawless & violent.In order to understand the tyrant, we’ll have to focus on the necessary desires & unnecessary desires.

Plato the republic book 10