β “For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.” Plato
β “Behold! human beings living in an underground den… Like ourselves… They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.” Plato
β “Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.” Plato
β “It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.” Plato