"No man's nature is able to know..." - Quote by Plato
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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“To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.”
“The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.”
“A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.”
More on Human Nature
“Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.”
“We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.”
“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
More on Knowledge
“Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.”
“People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.”
“And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.”