Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Quotations
Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
