Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
From Plato
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
He who is of 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.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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