On Harry S. Trumans desk. It may not have been very good Latin, but I got the point accross---don't let the hardheaded bastards get you down. Hey, it may not be a very academic translation, but it was the one Harry used--so it works here.
There is only one important truth and that is the dictum, "to thyne own self be true......" Keep it up and fight the battles you must (and I will avoid saying stay the course). Plato advised we should do what is right not because of the compulsion of the authorities or fear of punishment from the Gods, but because that is the right thing to do. Simply put, if you know the difference between right and wrong, you have no excuse for doing something that is not right.
Keep up the good fight, it benefits us all.
Publius
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