terça-feira, dezembro 26, 2006

Dica

"Calma, eu estarei lá com o bonde do bem."

Para separar o joio do trigo. É simples, como usualmente é. Pelo menos quando se tem os princípios em mente. Os bons desejam passar tempo com aqueles melhores que eles, gostam dos debates nos quais provavelmente serão derrotados, quando se percebem ignorantes desejam saber mais e mais. Os outros, não.

"“That,” said Cebes, “seems sensible. But what you said just now, Socrates, that philosophers ought to be ready and willing to die, that seems strange if we were right just now in saying that god is our guardian and we are his possessions. For it is not reasonable that the wisest men should not be troubled when they leave that service in which the gods, who are the best overseers in the world, are watching over them. A wise man certainly does not think that when he is free he can take better care of himself than they do. A foolish man might perhaps think so, that he ought to run away from his master, and he would not consider that he must not run away from a good master, but ought to stay with him as long as possible; and so he might thoughtlessly run away; but a man of sense would wish to be always with one who is better than himself. And yet, Socrates, if we look at it in this way, the contrary of what we just said seems natural; for the wise ought to be troubled at dying and the foolish to rejoice.”"(Platão, Phaedo, transcreveria em português se não estivesse distante dos meus livros)

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