The Philosopher Kings (Thessaly)

by Jo Walton

“You shouldn’t kill yourself because you don’t know that you’ve finished what you’re supposed to do in this life,” she said.

“That’s mine. And Delos is mine. And inspiration and healing and poetry and all those things. Those are responsibilities. But they’re not what’s important. Being a god means being myself forever, and that means knowing myself as well as I can.

For instance, he deduced from Athene saying that the City was just that justice must be a process, not a Form, and that reconciled contradictions between Plato and Aristotle’s views of justice as well as being a fascinating idea about dynamic ideals.

I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off.

“Letting them in and ridiculing them seems like a terrific strategy. Forbidden fruit is sweet, but nothing is appealing if people mock it.”

Nothing could have been more foolish than war over art.