And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award -…

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the...

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the...

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up...

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is...

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole,...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand,...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand,...

Even the gods love jokes.

Even the gods love jokes.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...