The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
PlatoSocrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
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