It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
SocratesWealth does not bring about excellence (aka aretรฉ), but excellence (aka aretรฉ) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
SocratesAnd the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.
SocratesAre you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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