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.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
