Tell my son how anxious I am that he may read and learn his Book, that he may become the possessor of those things that a grateful... country has bestowed upon his papa--Tell him that his happiness through life depends upon his procuring an education now; and with it, to imbibe proper moral habits that can entitle him to the possession of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indu...lgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and g...ardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beaut...y, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and a...lso the wisest and most upright man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authori...ty for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »