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#SOCRATES QUOTES ABOUT BREAKING HABITS IN TEH REPUBLIC FULL#

The rich have many consolations, they say.

They probably think old age is easy for you because of your money and not your character. So to stir him up I said: Cephalus, I'll bet most people won't accept what you say. If he's not, Socrates, even youth will be a burden to him.' I was delighted to hear him speak like that and wanted to hear more. If he's orderly and cheerful, old age will be tolerable. So, Socrates, the cause of a person's attitude toward these desires is also the cause of his family's attitude toward him: not age, but a man's character.329 Translated and Edited by Raymond Larson, 1979.Old age frees you from that sort of thing and gives you peace, and when your desires relax and stop driving you it's exactly as Sophocles said: release from bondage to a pack of raging tyrants. 'The greatest happiness of my life was escaping from that cruel and raging tyrant.' That seemed like a good reply then, and now it seems even better. Once I was with the poet Sophocles when someone asked: 'How's your sex life, Sophocles? Are you still able to enjoy a woman?' 'Hush!' said Sophocles.

#SOCRATES QUOTES ABOUT BREAKING HABITS IN TEH REPUBLIC FULL#

329 Translated and Edited by Raymond Larson, 1979 ( full text).But I've met old people who aren't like that. If age were the cause, it would have the same effect on me and everyone else who's old. Some complain that their families abuse them, and make that an excuse to bewail old age, as though age were the cause of all of their miseries.Now it seems to me that these people put the blame in the wrong place, Socrates.

They fret as though they'd been deprived of something important, saying that then they lived well and now they're not even living. Most of us sit and cry about the good old days, yearning for the pleasures of youth and reminiscing about the joys of sex and parties and drinking and all that.

A few of us old fellows get together now and then, like regular birds of a feather.

In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athenians and foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. None of the governments, as they now exist, is worthy of the philosophic nature, and hence we see that nature warped and corrupted just as a foreign seed, when sown in an alien soil, generally loses its native quality, and tends to be subdued and pass into the plant of the country, even so this philosophic nature, so far from preserving its distinctive power, now suffers a decline and takes on a different character. Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. and when he sees the rest of mankind full of wickedness, he is content if only he can live his own life and be pure from evil or unrighteousness, and depart in peace and good will, with bright hopes. is like one who retires under the shelter of a wall in the storm. But whether it exists anywhere or ever exists is no matter for this is the only commonwealth in whose politics he can ever take part. Isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road? Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it and seeing it, to found one in himself.