Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner.

But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.
And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the least light of reason, till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind.

When Alexander had in his fury inhumanly butchered one of his best friends and bravest captains; on the return of reason he began to conceive an horror suitable to the guilt of such a murder.

In this juncture his council came to his assistance.

But what did his council?
They found him out a philosopher who gave him comfort.