#so

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ↗

— Plato

#combat #conflict #earthly #every #exhort

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

#clear #compels #draws #events #everyone

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #child #drunkard #man #old

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. ↗

— Plato

#evils #full #go #having #injustice

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#given #head #like #man #never

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ↗

— Plautus

#composed #friendship #inhabiting #single #single soul