No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
Plato
Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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