A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
PlatoIt gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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.
PlatoThat makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
Plato