A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.
PlatoPooh," he said. "Much alike, aren't they, this case and that!"
"There is nothing to hinder their being so," said I, "but even if they are not alike and if the man thinks they are, do you believe he will any the less answer what appears to him, whether we forbid him or not?
Noticing that, he made a trail of the ring, to see if it had that power; and he found that whenever he turned the collet inside, he was invisible, when he turned it outside, visible. After he found this out he managed to be appointed one of the messengers to the king; when he got there, he seduced the king's wife, and with her set upon the king, and killed him, and seized the empire. Then if there could be two such rings, and if the just man put one on and the unjust the other, no one, as it would be thought, would be so adamantine as to abide in the practice of justice, no one could endure to hold back from another's goods and not to touch, when it was in his power to take what he would even out of the market without fear, and to go into any house and lie with anyone he wished, and to kill or set free from prison those he might wish, and to do anything else in the world like a very god. And in doing so he would do just the same as the other; both would go the same way. Surely one would call this a strong proof that no one is just willingly but only under a strong compulsion, believing that it is not a good to him personally; since wherever each thinks he will be able to do injustice, he does injustice.
PlatoStates will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
PlatoThey deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
PlatoTag: humor life politics humanity society the-universe and-everything
He is divine -- but then I call all philosophers that.
Platoالرجل الصالح هو الذي يحتمل الأذى لكنه لا يرتكبه
PlatoVirtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
PlatoWe do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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