What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
PlatoExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PlatoMathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
Plato