Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of division of labour.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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