It is not meet to act and speak like men asleep. The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own. The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has. The wisest person is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man. The people must fight for its law as for its walls.
Greater deaths win greater portions.
It is not good for men to get all they wish to get. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul. And it is law, too, to obey the counsel of one. They follow the poets and take the crowd as their teacher, knowing not that there are many bad and few good. For even the best of them choose one thing above all others, immortal glory among mortals, while most of them are glutted like beasts.