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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.