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Ok, enjoyed book seven more. Interesting to me that the guardians pinnacle would be attaining the good or the light, and I don’t even think Plato knows what that light really is. The clearest he is is when use his cave analogy, because he can’t speak frankly as he doesn’t have that ultimate light. Christ!

Eugenics?

“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness - to glory?”

“We didn’t know whose husband it was, but we knew who our savior was”

I feel continually inspired by this book. God is so intentional in the way he assembles his people for his glory.

“For a while, especially if you have children, you shape your life according to expectations. That is arguably pretty foolish, for expectation can be a bucketful of smoke… But there is some pleasure in expectations too, and I should not be regretful about ours.”

This is the kinda book that makes me want to cry into a million buckets because I want to be as wise as Hannah & also live the simple life and be a wife and mother but also don’t want my husband to die at war

“God also teaches in this way, leading us little by little from the winter’s cold to endure intense summer heat and from the summer’s heat to the intense winter’s cold. Imitating him, we must proceed toward the point we need to reach by habituating ourselves beforehand.”

“Because fire burns those who touch it, but beautiful people ignite even those who gaze from afar, so that they are inflamed in love.”

Wait what

Ok I can tell if this book is stupid or not. It kinda reminds me of a spicy version of Legend if you read that series. However, I have read 260 pages in one day so I guess that means something.

“To the contrary, honor makes labors a bit lighter for the ruler, as does the very knowing that his acts do not go unnoticed.

This book is quite good so far!

I’m so confused

I hope I never will be like the woman of chapter ten.

This is why you haven’t seen me reading anything in ages.

“But, before marrying, you must know what kind of man you want to be, what you want to spend your life doing, and what measures you want to take to assure yourself and your family of bread.”

Yall already know I’ve been waiting for this one

:’(