“I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.”
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 11
Dionisio I , apodado Dionisio el viejo, fue tirano de Siracusa desde el año 405 a. C. hasta su muerte. Durante su gobierno consolidó el poderío de Siracusa entre las colonias griegas de la Magna Grecia enfrentándose a la influencia de Cartago en Sicilia. A su muerte le sucedió su hijo Dionisio II. Wikipedia
“I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.”
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 11
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
Frag. 6, as quoted in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh, p. 1009.
As quoted by Cicero, in Tusculan disputations 5.61 as translated by Gavin Betts http://www.livius.org/sh-si/sicily/sicily_t11.html