Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Tag: Phaedrus
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.