𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕔 𝕃𝕚𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.” ― Oswald Spengler

“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.” ― Julius Evola

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” — Herman Hesse

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." — Carl Jung

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." — Carl Jung

Ignore your dreams at your own peril.

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