By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Book IV
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. Gorgias
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them. Book VIII
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy... Ecce Homo
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