The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.
Category Archive: Plato
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Man – a being in search of meaning.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.