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““Let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.””
Republic • Plato“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
The Gay Science • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“The soul is in the very likeness of the divine, and immortal, and intelligible, and uniform, and indissoluble, and unchangeable; and the body is in the very likeness of the human, and mortal, and unintelligible, and multiform, and dissoluble, and changeable.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain““People take things easily from children.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos