𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕔 𝕃𝕚𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪

Masturbation

The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils—no, nor the human race, as I believe—and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. – Plato, The Republic

"It is the business of the ruler to give orders and of the ruled to obey." — Socrates, acording to Xenophon

"For Aristotle, democracy is possible only within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies. A multi-ethnic society is thus necessarily anti-democratic and chaotic, for it lacks 'philia', this profound, flesh and blood fraternity of citizens. Tyrants and despots divide and rule, they want the city divided by ethnic rivalries. The indispensable condition for ensuring a people's sovereignty accordingly resides in its unity. Ethnic chaos prevents all 'philia' from developing." 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕦𝕞𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕦𝕞𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖