Sublime

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

For let me tell you, that the more the

vous trouverez que, tout au long de mon existence, j'ai été un tel homme quelle que soit la fonction publique que j'ai exercée et que je suis resté le même en privé : je ne me suis jamais laissé convaincre d'agir contre la justice par personne, qu'il s'agisse de l'un de ceux que mes calomniateurs présentent comme mes disciples ou de quelqu'un d'aut

“Platonism,” he says, “is part of the vital structure of Christian theology, with which no other philosophy, I venture to say, can work without friction.” There is, he says, an “utter impossibility of excising Platonism from Christianity without tearing Christianity to pieces.” He points out that Saint Augustine speaks of Plato’s system as “the mos

When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me,

Plato’s The Republic. I’m actually gobsmacked that this isn’t required in order to be sworn into office,

as Cicero once said of Cato, ‘he talks as if he were in the Republic of Plato, when in fact he is in the crap of Romulus’.

more than human virtue is needed to save a man, and that he only praises justice who is incapable of injustice.