...the Gods too love a joke.
The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
Man 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.