Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
PlatoRomantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
PlatoA person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
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