Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato in The Republic
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato in The Republic
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.