Matthew Trickett

“One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

“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, Plato's Republic

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― Plato, The Republic

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic