It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
the Republicby plato
We’ve heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one’s own work and not meddling with what isn’t one’s own. Then, it turns out that this doing one’s own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
Haven’t you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind — isn’t anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
blind / knowledge / opinion / understanding
Socrates: I’m afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one’s body and a voice to protest with.
You don’t seem to love money too much. And those who haven’t made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who haven’t.
The author’s Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.
Evil / good / just / limitations / Socrates
For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unless their skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. No artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err.
artists / grammarian / Mistake / skill
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.
Pooh, he said. “Much alike, aren’t they, this case and that!” “There is nothing to hinder their being so,” said I, “but even if they are not alike and if the man thinks they are, do you believe he will any the less answer what appears to him, whether we forbid him or not?
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.