... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.
Weitere Zitate von Plato
Zum Autor"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."