There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
PlatoAnd we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
PlatoMan is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
Plato