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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Series Of Thoughts Loosely Styled On The Platonic Writings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the past there were a few <br>who lived in places, <br>surrounded by riches, <br>and many of these royals <br>thought themselves free. <br>Yet their every act <br>was judged by a thousand <br>cruel, pitiless eyes.<br> <br>The eyes of a jealous, <br>ignorant, stagnant society, <br>that had run its course. <br>Whose bonds held it fast <br>on every bordered side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was often impossible <br>or extremely difficult <br>to be different in <br>this archaic world. <br>There are countless <br>examples of this. Sadly, <br>some of these forms <br>still exist among us today. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you would know truth <br>you must seek it among <br>all kinds of men. (People) <br>For the says of the learned <br>are like the heavy wines <br>of Asia Minor, <br>which cloud the mind <br>and cause it to dwell <br>in mists of words <br>without understanding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is normally hard <br>for the pampered rich <br>to achieve to greatness <br>or to perform noble deeds. <br>For the rich are ensnared <br>by their possessions. <br>The care of them <br>fills their whole mind. <br>Those who seem first <br>with men (People) <br>are often last with God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the inward qualities <br>come first with God, <br>while the outward signs <br>come last. The first <br>shall be last and the last first. <br>This is speaking <br>not of this world <br>but of the spirit, <br>and teachings <br>which are to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now when speaking <br>of the philosopher, <br>can we not say <br>that philosophers are <br>the lovers <br>of the vision of truth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That the philosopher is a lover, <br>not of a part of wisdom only, <br>but of the whole? Reflect, <br>is not the dreamer, <br>sleeping or waking, <br>one who likens <br>dissimilar things, <br>who puts the copy <br>in place of the real? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until philosophers are kings, <br>or kings and princes <br>of this world have <br>the spirit and power <br>of philosophy, <br>with political greatness <br>and wisdom meet in one. <br>While those with commoner <br>natures who pursue either <br>to the exclusion of the other <br>are compelled to stand aside, <br>cities will never have rest <br>from their evils. No, nor <br>the human race - and then <br>only will this our State <br>have a possibility of life <br>and behold the light of day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The many, we say, are seen <br>but not known, <br>and ideas are known <br>but not seen. <br>Sight is by far <br>the most costly and complex <br>piece of workmanship <br>which the artificer <br>of the senses ever contrived. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sight being, as I conceive, <br>in the eyes, the bond <br>which links sight and visibility <br>together incorporating light; <br>and of all organs the eye <br>is the most like the sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the power of the eye, <br>possesses a sort of effluence, <br>which is dispersed from the sun. <br>When a person directs their eyes <br>towards objects on which the light <br>of day is no longer shining, <br>but the moon and stars only, <br>eyes see dimly, and are nearly <br>blinded with no clearness <br>of vision in them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when eyes are directed <br>towards objects <br>on which the sun shines, <br>eyes see clearly <br>and there is sight in them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The soul is like the eye. <br>When resting upon <br>that on which truth <br>and light shine, <br>the soul perceives <br>and understands <br>and is radiant with intelligence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when turned towards the twilight <br>of becoming and perishing, <br>then the soul has opinion only, <br>and goes blinking about, <br>and is first of one opinion <br>and then of another, <br>and seems to have no intelligence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In life no man (People) <br>should have to walk <br>the earth alone. <br>A man should have a mate, <br>to share his luck and strengths, <br>but his sorrows also. <br>Life is flavoured with such courage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange how it is often <br>the spoiled who weaken <br>and cry first, <br>and the injured, <br>the maimed, the blind, <br>the poor, who fight on alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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who lived in places, 
surrounded by riches, 
and many of these royals 
thought themselves free. 
Yet their every act 
was judged by a thousand 
cruel, pitiless eyes.
 
The eyes of a jealous, 
ignorant, stagnant societ..."></div>
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