C.L. - Aüdio

“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.”

“I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it?”

Classical Humanism.

“What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.”

“The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take pleasure in beauty, its force reinforced by its kindred desires for beauty in human bodies — this desire, all-conquering in its forceful drive, takes its name from the word for force (rhome) and is called eros.”

“A person who wants to be happy must evidently pursue and practice self-control… This is the target which I think one should look to in living, and in his actions he should direct all of his own affairs and those of his city to the end that justice and self-control will be present in one who is to be blessed. He should not allow his appetites to be undisciplined or undertake to fill them up—that’s interminably bad—and live the life of a marauder. Such a man could not be dear to another man or to a god, for he cannot be a partner, and where there’s no partnership there’s no friendship.”