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““Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?””
Republic • Plato“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.”
Mardi • Herman Melville““For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.””
Republic • Plato“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
Sand and Foam • Kahlil Gibran“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes