The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know… How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.
Plato Quotes
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
