They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good.
the Republicby plato
But what if there are no gods?
Ought the just to injure any one at all?
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Justice is useful when money is useless.
First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.
If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?
Thus our State, which is also yours, will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good.
They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.
There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.