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Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 478 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. I might fairly reply to him,'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 477 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 476 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry? | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 475 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 474 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
Those who are hardest to love need it the most. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 473 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 472 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 471 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
When you bury my body, don’t build any momentum and keep my hands outside so that the world knows that the person who won the whole world had nothing in his hand while dying. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 470 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos… | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 469 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.8 Rating: N/A |
Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator. |