“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
― Plato's Republic
― Plato's Republic
“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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