This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
PlatoTo conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
PlatoThe judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
Plato