So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
Democracy is when the indigent and not the men of property are the rulers.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.
Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative...
Men always makes gods in their own image.
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit...