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Tragedy, says Socrates, is older than Thespis. Through it we avenged ourselves on Minos. Never provoke, then, a people who have poets and tragedians.
— He led them, not by force but by persuasion, as the wind leads a ship.
Attention to events and history, the telling and the remembering, — arises from rest and leisure. Cities created the arts.
Armed goddesses are ancient, from the time when women shared the exercise of arms with their husbands.
In all these times of trouble, great wrongs are done and suffered.
Then (says Axiochus in Plato), “I was seized with disgust for liberty and detested the republic. No kind of government seemed worse or harsher to me.”
When the event is old, history has settled its lees.
Everything with wings is beyond the reach of laws.
There ought to be, for peoples, a secret history of the benefits bestowed by kings and princes, and for the latter another secret history of the just punishments peoples have sometimes inflicted on princes and kings. Kings should read only the latter, and peoples only the former.
December 22, 1791.
— The bells rang for daybreak and prayer; the bells rang for prayer and the day’s end.
God then takes back the government of this lost world...
You are sowing nothing there but brambles. They will bear thorns.