“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
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Change in all things is sweet.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.