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11-18 Greek Philosophers Quotes Part 2 of 2 in English
11-18 Greek Philosophers Quotes Part 2 of 2 in English
The Greek philosophers were among the most influential people in history because they invented both philosophy and science. By asking questions about themselves and the world around them, these philosophers helped create modern civilization.
Interestingly enough, the Greek philosophers thought of themselves as scientists rather than thinkers. They called themselves seekers and lovers of wisdom and often studied a wide variety of subjects, including history, physics, law, sociology, politics, mathematics, and biology. The famous philosophers were also teachers, educating wealthy children and operating schools as well as thinkers.
Author Birth - Death
ELEATIC - Melissus of Samos
ELEATIC - Parmenides of Elea
PRE-SOCRATIC - Pherecydes of Syros
GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PYTHAGOREANS - Philolaus of Croton
11 PLATONISM - Plato 427 BC - 347 BC
12 MIDDLE-PLATONISM - Plutarch 46 - 120
13 SOPHISTS - Protagoras 481 BC - 411 BC
08 PYRRHONIAN SKEPTICISM - Pyrrho (c. 360-270 BCE)
01 GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PYTHAGOREANS - Pythagoras of Samos (570-495 BCE)
14 SOCRATICS - Socrates 469 BC - 399 BC
15 SEVEN (7) ANCIENT SAGES - Thales of Melitus 624 BC - 546 BC
16 PERIPATETIC - Theophrastus 370 BC - 285 BC
17 ELEATIC - IONIANS - Xenophanes of Colophon 570 BC - 480 BC
02 ELEATIC - Zeno of Elea (c. 490-430 BCE)
18 STOICISM - Zeno of Citium 335 BC - 264 BC
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ELEATIC - Melissus of Samos
Ελεατική Σχολή - Μέλισσος απο τη Σάμο ( ο Σάμιος )
Ελεατική Σχολή - Μέλισσος απο τη Σάμο ( ο Σάμιος )
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1. What was always was, and always shall be. For, if it came into being, necessarily, before its generation, there was nothing; so, if there were nothing, nothing at all would come from nothing.
2. Since then it did not come into being, it is and always was and always shall be, and has neither beginning nor end, but is without limit. For if it had come into being, it would have a beginning (for it would have begun to come into being at some time) and an end (for it would have stopped coming into being at some time); but, since it neither began nor ended, it always was and shall be and has no beginning nor end; for it is impossible for what is not entire to be always.
3. But as it always is, so it is also without limit in extent.
4. No thing that has both beginning and end is eternal or without limit.
5. If it were not one thing, it would limit some other thing.
6. For if it were without limit, it would be one; for if there were two, they could not be without limit, one would limit the other.
7. (i) So therefore it is eternal and without limit and one and a homogenous whole.
(ii) And it cannot pass away or become greater or change its arrangement or feel pain or be distressed; for if it could suffer any of these it would not still be one. For if it were to change, what there is could not be homogenous, but what is in front would pass away, and what dies not exist would come into existence. If therefore it were to become different by as much as a single hair in ten thousand years, it would pass away in the whole of time.
(iii) And it is impossible for there to be a change in arrangement; for the kosmos which was before does not pass away, nor does one which is not come into existence. And since nothing at all is added or passes away or is altered how can there be a change of kosmos? for if it became different in any way, immediately there would be a change in kosmos .
(iv) And it does not feel pain; for a thing in pain could not be exist for ever; and it does not have power equal to the healthy; and if it were in pain it would not be homogenous; fr it would feel pain from the loss or addition of something, and would be no longer homogenous.
(v) And the healthy could not feel pain, for then the healthy, what there is, would pass away, and what is not would come to be.
(vi) And the same argument applies to distress as to pain.
(vii) And it is not empty at all; for what is empty is nothing, and then what is nothing could not be.
(viii) And it does not move; for it cannot retreat in any direction, but it is full. For if it were empty it would retreat into the empty; but since the empty does not exist, it has nowhere to retreat to.
(ix) And it would not be dense and rare; for it is not possible for what is rare to be full in the same way as what is dense, but the rare of course is emptier than the dense.
(x) And this distinction must be made between what is full and what is not full: if it retreats or takes in anything it is not full, but if it does not retreat or take in anything it is full.
(xi) So it must be full, since there is no empty. If then it is full, it does not move.
8. This argument then provides the strongest proof that it is one only; but there are these proofs as well:
(i) If there were many things they would have to be such as I say the one is. For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other things that people say are real, if indeed there are these, and we see and hear correctly, each must be such as we first decided, and they cannot change or become different, but each is always as it is.
(ii) But as it is we say that we do see and hear and perceive correctly, and yet it seems to us that the hot becomes cold and the cold hot, and the hard becomes soft and the soft hard, and the living dies and there is birth from what is not living, and all these things change around and what a thing was and what it is now are not at all the same, but iron, which is hard, is rubbed away by contact with the finger, and also gold and stone and whatever seems to us to be strong, and from water come earth and stone [so it happens that we don't see or understand what there is.]
9. So if it exists it must be one; and being one it could not have body. If it had thickness it would have parts, and would no longer be one.
10. If what exists is divided, it moves: and if it moves it would not exist.
Translation M. R. Wright
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ELEATIC - Parmenides of Elea
Ελεατική Σχολή - Παρμενίδης απο την Ελέα ( ο Ελεάτης )
Ελεατική Σχολή - Παρμενίδης απο την Ελέα ( ο Ελεάτης )
Parmenides. Detail from The School of Athens by Raphael.
Fragments
Proem
1(1)'Young man, coming to our home in the company of immortal charioteers and the horses which carry you, welcome! It is no ill chance which has sent you to travel along this road, far from the way trodden by humans, but right and justice. You must learn about everything, both the unshaken heart of rounded truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true belief. (from 1.24)
2(2) Come now, pay heed to my account and take it with you - I shall tell you only the ways of enquiry that are to be thought of: that it is and cannot not be is the path of persuasion, for it attends on truth, that it is not, and necessarily is not, is I tell you a path of which nothing can be learnt, for you could not recognise what is not (that is impossible) nor name it;
3(3) ... for what can be thought of is the same as what can be.
4(4) Contemplate steadily what is absent as present to your mind; for it will never cut off what is from holding to what it is, since it neither scatters in every direction in every away nor draws together in order.
5(5) It does not matter to me wherever I begin; for there again I shall return once more.
6(6)What can be spoken and thought of must exist, for it can exist but nothing can not; this I bid you ponder. This is the first way of enquiry from which I hold you back, and then from this second one too, along which men wander knowing nothing, two headed, for helplessness steers the wandering thought in their hearts. They move along deaf as well as blind, dazed uncritical crowds, who consider to be and not to be the same and not the same, and that for all things there is a path turning back again.
7(7) It shall never be proved that what-is-not is; keep your thought from this way of enquiry, and do not let habit-forming custom cause your heedless eye and echoing ear and your tongue to mislead you, but judge by reasoning the hard-hitting argument reported by me.
The Way of Truth (Aletheia)
8(8) One way only is left to speak of, namely that it is. Along this way are many signs: that what-is is (i) ungenerated and indestructible, (ii) unique, (iii) unmoved and (iv) complete; it never was nor will be, since it is now, all at once one, continuous.
(i) What creation will you seek for it? how did it grow? and from what source? I will not allow you to say or to think 'from what is not', for it is not possible to say or to think what is not. And if it did come from nothing what compulsion was there for it to arise later rather than earlier? so that it must either be all at once or not at all. And the strength of conviction will not allow anything else ever to arise from what is not. ... How could what-is later perish? how could it come into existence? for if it came into existence in the past or if it is going to exist at some time in the future it is not; so generation is extinguished and destruction incredible.
(ii) It is not divisible, since it is all alike; nor is there more at one time and less at another which would prevent its continuity, but all is full of what there is. So that it all holds together, for what-is stays close to what-is.
(iii) Moreover, without beginning and without end (since generation and destruction have been driven afar, and true conviction has cast them out) it is immobile in the bonds of great chains. Remaining the same and in the same it abides by itself and so stays firm, for harsh necessity keeps it in the chains of the limit which holds it around, because it is not right for what-is to be incomplete; for it is not in need - if it were it would need everything.
[What is there to be thought of is the same as what is thought, for you will not find thinking apart from what-is, which is what is referred to. There is and will be nothing apart from what-is, since Fate holds this as one and unchanged. This (i.e. what-is) had been called all that people have proposed, in their conviction of the truth birth and death, being and not being, shift of place and change of bright colour.]
(iv) Moreover, since it is utterly unchanging, it is complete on every side, like the bulk of a well-rounded sphere, equally balanced about the centre in every direction, for it cannot be more here and less there than what-is, since it is all continuous; being equal to itself on every side it rests uniformly in its limits.
The Way of Opinion (Doxa)
Here I end my reliable argument and thought concerning truth. From this point on learn about the opinions of humans, as you listen to the deceptive arrangement of my words. People have made up their minds to name two forms; they should not name even one of them that is where they have gone astray. They have distinguished them as opposites in appearance, and assigned them marks distinct from one another to one the aetherial flame of fire, gentle and very fine, identical with itself in every direction but different from the other. The other is its opposite dark night, a heavy and composite body. I am telling you the whole plausible arrangement of them, so that no one's thinking shall outpace you.
9(9) Since all things have been named light and night, and the names which belong to the powers of each have been assigned, all is full at once of light and dark night, both equal, since nothing is without either.
10(10) You shall know the nature of aether and all the signs in aether and the unseen workings of the shining sun's clear torch and from where they arose, and you will learn of the wandering workings of the round moon and its nature, and you will understand how the surrounding heaven came about and how necessity brought it to hold fast the limits of the stars.
11(11) ... how earth and sun and moon and universal aether and the Milky Way and the hot force of the stars rushed into being.
12(13) first of all the gods (s)he devised Eros.
13(14) A borrowed light shining in the night wanders round earth.
14(15) always looking to the rays of the sun
15(12) For the narrower <circles> were filled with unmixed fire, and those next to them with night, but alongside an allotted amount of fire; and in the middle of these the goddess who governs all. For she controls everything belonging to hated birth and intercourse, sending the female to unite with the male and again, the other way round, the male to the female.
16(17) on the right boys and on the left girls
18(16) According to the nature of the mixture of the wandering limbs that each one has, so does thought stand for each; that which thinks, the physis of the limbs, is the same for each and everyone; and what there is more of is that thought.
19(19) So according to belief they were and are now, and hereafter, having grown from this, the will come to an end, and, for each one, men laid down a distinguishing name.
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PRE-SOCRATIC - Pherecydes of Syros
προσωκρατικός φιλόσοφος - Φερεκύδης απο τη Σύρο
προσωκρατικός φιλόσοφος - Φερεκύδης απο τη Σύρο
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GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - PYTHAGOREANS - Philolaus of Croton
Πυθαγόρειοι φιλόσοφοι - Φιλόλαος από τον Κρότωνα ( ο Κροτωνιάτης )
Πυθαγόρειοι φιλόσοφοι - Φιλόλαος από τον Κρότωνα ( ο Κροτωνιάτης )
Fragments
Fr. 1: Nature (physis) in the world-order (cosmos) was fitted together out of things which are unlimited and out of things which are limiting, both the world-order as a whole and everything in it.
Fr. 4: And indeed all things that are known have number. For it is not possible that anything whatsoever be understood or known without this.
Fr. 5: Number, indeed, has two proper kinds, odd and even, and a third from both mixed together, the even-odd. Of each of these two kinds there are many forms, of which each thing itself gives signs.
Fr. 6: …since these beginnings [i.e. limiters and unlimiteds] pre-existed and were neither alike nor even related, it would not have been possible for them to be ordered, if a harmony had not come upon them… Like things and related things did not in addition require any harmony, but things that are unlike and not even related … it is necessary that such things be bonded together by a harmony, if they are going to be held in an order.
Fr. 7: The first thing fitted together, the one in the center of the sphere, is called the hearth.
Fr. 13: The head [is the seat] of intellect, the heart of life (psyche) and sensation, the navel of rooting and first growth, the genitals of the sowing of seed and generation. The brain [contains] the origin of man, the heart the origin of animals, the navel the origin of plants, the genitals the origin of all (living things). For all things both flourish and grow from seed.
Fr. 14: the ancient theologians and seers also give witness that on account of certain penalties the soul is yoked to the body and is buried in it as in a tomb.
Fr. 15: … all things are encompassed by god as if in a prison …
Translated by C. Huffman
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11 PLATONISM - Plato Quotes - page 01 0f 07
Πλάτων
Plato: copy of portrait bust by Silanion
Plato from The School of Athens by Raphael, 1509
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience, while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand. Plato holds his Timaeus and gestures to the heavens, representing his belief in The Forms
Volume 3, pages 32–33, of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres
Plato's Symposium (Anselm Feuerbach, 1873)
"The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929).
First page of the Euthyphro, from the Clarke Plato (Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39), 895 AD. The text is Greek minuscule.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Music, Life, Mind
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Communication, Men, Speak
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Knowledge, Desire, Behavior
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Fear, Life, Men
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Power, Political, Call
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Education, Life, Future
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Strength, Good, Inspire
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Politics, Governed, Refusing
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you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Relationship, Discover, Year
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Men, Hero, Wise
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we are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Faith, Fight, Twice
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Knowledge, Good, Numbers
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Good, Laws, While
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Knowledge, Opinion, Ignorance
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Heart, Sing, Another
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music, Education, Movement
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Democracy, Liberty, Tyranny
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Great, Greatest, Wealth
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Anger, Cannot, Help
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Good, Nature, Less
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He was a wise man who invented beer.
Beer, Wise, Invented
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Love, Good, Wise
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Art, Work, Beginning
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Help, Die, Either---
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Astronomy, Another, Soul
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Graduation, Good, Education
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Happiness, Wisdom, Best
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
City, Citizens
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Great, Greatest, Victory
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Art, Men, Rhetoric
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Love is a serious mental disease.
Love, Serious, Mental
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Education, Training, Proper
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Love, God, Lives
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage, Fear, Knowing
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Virtue, Gold, Earth
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Parenting, Parents, Spirit
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Great, Deal
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Good, Twice, Repeat
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love, Touch, Poet
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Health, Life, Greatest
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Life must be lived as play.
Life, Lived
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Government, Democracy, Passes
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work, Worth, Came
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Injustice, Suffers, Wretched
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Equality, Government, Democracy
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Power, Measure
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Inspirational, Thinking, Soul
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
Invention, Necessity, Mother
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Less, Pay, Tax
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Another, Whether, Moment
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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Silence, Gives, Shall
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Great, Learning, Greatest
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry, Truth, History
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Direction, Opposite, Reaction
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Community, Poverty, Nor
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Science is nothing but perception.
Science, Perception
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
God, Nature, Men
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Honesty, Less, Dishonesty
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Knowledge, Food, Said
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Business, Men, Means
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Life, Good, Cannot
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Education, Nature, Bring
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Good, Master, Servant
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Knowledge, Learning, Greatest
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Happiness, Greatest, State
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Himself, Conquer, Victories
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
War, Seen, Dead
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Change, Whether, Direction
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Knowledge, Learning, Ignorant
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Wisdom, Men, Three
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Legal, Life, Justice
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage, Salvation
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Age, Nature, Happy
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Reach, Injustice, Highest
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Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge, True, Opinion
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Time, Child, Second
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Suffer, Speed, Haste
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Service, Gods, Tolerable
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
War, Fear, Enemy
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Moment, Single, Each
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Ignorance, Evil, Root
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Life, Education, Walks
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Knowledge, Wisdom, Rather
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Life, Good, Death
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Whether, State, Seems
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Nature, Equality, Justice
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Lie, Larger, Stones
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
Meaning, Search
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge, Evil, Becomes
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Themselves, Content, Appear
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Known, Capable, Hardly
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Often, Said, Benefit
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Best, Another, Each
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
God, Wise, Far
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Philosophy is the highest music.
Music, Philosophy, Highest
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Your silence gives consent.
Silence, Consent, Gives
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Great, Men, Anxiety
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Wisdom, Low, Cunning
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
State, Needs, Wants
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Capable, Arts, Hardly
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Life, Great, Greater
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Soul, Eyes, Vision
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Death, Last, Swallowed
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Men, Women, Mind
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Greatest, Perfect, Hear
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Men, Government, Wise
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
God, Blame, Chooses
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Love, Beautiful, Educated
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Wisdom, Alone, Science
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Study, Memory, Ought
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge, Mind, Hold
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The good is the beautiful.
Good, Beautiful
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Feet, Animal, Flat
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It is right to give every man his due.
Legal, Due
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Music, Political, Since
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Good, Another, Easily
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Tyranny, Democracy, Naturally
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Men, Death, Happen
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Men, Speak, Nobody
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Feeling, Philosophy, Wonder
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Good, Remain
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Love, Friend, Return
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Root, Appears, Tyrant
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Good, Harm, Repeating
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Law, Mightier, Ordinance
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Mind, Thinking, Itself
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
Philosophy, Wonder, Begins
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Great, Wise, Understand
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Rather, Nation, Action
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Lovers, Oath
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Power, Less, Wish
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Learning, Learn, Call
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Life, Everybody, Saying
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Good, Truth, Beginning
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Wants, Teach, Teaches
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Last, Soul, Full
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Success, Cannot, Practice
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The wisest have the most authority.
Authority, Wisest
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Fear, Afraid, Suffering
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Soul, Clear, Events
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Ways, Happening, Accidents
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Good, Death, Fear
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Medical, Strange, Certainly
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Strange, Certainly, Names
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Meaning, Universals
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Men, Whatever, Seems
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Men, Grow, Characters
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Each, Virtue, Actions
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Great, Known, Wealth
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
Learning, Grow, Fain
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Help, Her, Justice
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Love, Great, Others
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Good, Home, State
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PLATONISM - Plato Quotes 213 quotes - SUPPLEMENT
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1
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Excellent things are rare."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Excellence Quotes
"Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: None
"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: None
"Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Tyranny Quotes
"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Truth is its own reward."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
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2
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Teaching Quotes
"Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Studying Quotes
"A dog has the soul of a philosopher."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Slander Quotes
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Scholars And Scholarship Quotes
"For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Riches Quotes
"The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
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3
"Pleasure is the bait of sin"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Philosophers And Philosophy Quotes Philosophy Quotes
"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Opposites Quotes
"Everything in Moderation"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Moderation Quotes
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Meaning Quotes
"The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Mathematics Quotes
"Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Luck Quotes
"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Lies And Lying Quotes
"All learning has an emotional base."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"Those who seek power are not worthy of that power."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Leadership Quotes
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4
"Justice is having and doing what is one's own"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Justice Quotes
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Injustice Quotes
"Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Indolence Quotes
"Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Indifference Quotes
"When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Income Quotes
"Even the gods love jokes."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Humorous Quotes
"Man is a two-legged animal without feathers."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"No human thing is of serious importance"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Human Quotes
"Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Harmony Quotes
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The wisest have the most authority."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The good is the beautiful."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would fain grow old learning many things."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Your silence gives consent."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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9
"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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10
"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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11
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Irish Dramatist Quotes
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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12
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is right to give every man his due."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Knowledge Quotes
"Science is nothing but perception."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Tyranny Quotes
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man - a being in search of meaning."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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14
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Humility Quotes
"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Law Quotes
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He was a wise man who invented beer."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Love is a serious mental disease."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Justice Quotes
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Income Quotes
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15
"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Philosophy is the highest music."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Heart Quotes
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Government Quotes
"In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Goodness Quotes
"There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Gain Quotes
"They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Fire Quotes
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Falsehood Quotes
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes
"A friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"Time is the moving image of Eternity"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Eternity Quotes
"I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Doctrine Quotes
"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Doctors Quotes
"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Dishonesty Quotes
"The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Desire Quotes
"By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Desire Quotes
"These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes
"Democracy passes into despotism."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He whom love touches not walks in darkness"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Darkness Quotes
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"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Cute Love Quotes Sweet Love Quotes
"My philosophy is when in Rome, do like the Romans do - so I'll be looking cool, talking to pretty women and eating ice cream. At least I'm quite good at doing two of those things!"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Culture Quotes
"Courage is a kind of salvation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Self conquest is the greatest of victories."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Conquest Quotes Victory Quotes
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Citizens Quotes
"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Citizens Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Character Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Causes Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Birth Quotes
"Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Belief Quotes
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"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Behavior Quotes
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes
"The fact that he [Fitzgerald] asked for authority that he probably already had, but wanted spelled out, makes it arguable that he had run into something rather quickly,"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Authority Quotes
"The wisest have the most authority"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Authority Quotes
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Attitude Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Athletics Quotes
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Astronomy and Astronauts Quotes
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Apathy Quotes
"The plight of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil man"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Apathy Quotes
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Anxiety Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Animals Quotes
"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Ancestry Quotes
"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Advice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Action Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Action Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Achievement Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: History Quotes Poetry Quotes
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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Parenting Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Education Quotes Music Quotes
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Education Quotes Music Quotes
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Medical Quotes
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Love Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Love Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Life must be lived as play."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Life Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Legal Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Fitness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Faith Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Art Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Scientists Quotes
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Quotations by Plato
Quotations by Plato
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
[Said to have been above the doorway of his Academy.]
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. Republic, VII, 528.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
Mathematics is like draughts [checkers] in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Republic, VII, 52.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988).
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956).
[Of the five Platonic solids]
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.
The Timaeus
[The Earth is] like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
Theatetus
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
Quoted in F Bacon, Novum Organum
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
Charmides
... arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
The Republic
... those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
The Republic
... arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
The Republic
...no intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
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12 MIDDLE-PLATONISM - Plutarch Quotes - page 01 of 02
Πλούταρχος
Plutarch's bust at Chaeronea, his home town.
Parallel Lives, Amyot translation, 1565
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Inspirational, Change, Achieve
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Poetry, Painting, Silent
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friendship, Change, Changes
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Intelligence, Mind, Fire
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Good, Great, Though
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Good, Education, Lie
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Learning, Wisdom, Good
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Wisdom, Silence, Speech
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Happiness, Less, Speak
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Among, Benefits, Liberties
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Talk, Listen, Profit
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Great, Aim, Suffer
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Living, Use, Treat
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Left, Chance, Fortune
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Courage, Lack, Stands
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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Fate, Leads, Resist
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Good, Less, Evil
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Few, Virtues, Sufficient
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Friends, Adversity, Balance
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Difficult, Easy, Fault
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
Blame, Neither, Praise
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Men, Lives, Days
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Poor, Rich, Fatal
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Best, Horses, Wildest
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Indeed, Glory, Belongs
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Character is long-standing habit.
Character, Habit
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Mind, Character, Words
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Knowledge, Power, Rather
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Music, Health, Create
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Fear, Courage, Cause
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Men, Each, Common
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
God, Opinion, Belief
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Men, Wise, Though
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Good, Enemy, Excellent
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Character, Simply, Habit
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Adversity, Easily, Harder
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Friends, Strong, Both
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Cannot, Together, Themselves
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Men, Far, Lives
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MIDDLE-PLATONISM - Plutarch Quotes 65 quotes - SUPPLEMENT
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"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: None
"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: None
"Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: None
"The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: None
"It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Victory Quotes
"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Valor Quotes
"To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Poverty Quotes
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"The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Man Quotes
"The wildest colts make the best horses"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Horses Quotes
"Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The wildest colts make the best horses."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Living Quotes
"Neither blame or praise yourself."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Praise Quotes
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Character is long-standing habit."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Character is simply habit long continued."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Glory Quotes
"Abstain from beans."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Food Quotes
"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Fate Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Speakers And Speaking Quotes
"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Divorce Quotes
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Disease Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Difficulty Quotes
"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Death Quotes
"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Contentment Quotes
"Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Brave Quotes Praise Quotes
"Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Birth Quotes
"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Bargains Quotes
"They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep]."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Applause Quotes
"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,"
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Achievement Quotes
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Achievement Quotes Man Quotes
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Fire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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13 SOPHISTS - Protagoras of Abdera Quotes
Σοφιστές - Σοφιστική κίνηση - Πρωταγόρας από τα Άβδηρα ( ο Αβδηρίτης )
Σοφιστές - Σοφιστική κίνηση - Πρωταγόρας από τα Άβδηρα ( ο Αβδηρίτης )
Democritus (center) and Protagoras (right) 17th century painting by Salvator Rosa in Hermitage Museum
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Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
Measure
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There are two sides to every question.
Protagoras
Question, Sides
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras
Truth, Together, Ourselves
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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Protagoras
Evil, Anybody, Aware
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As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Protagoras
Either, Knowing, Exist
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The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Protagoras
Since, Anyone, Sort
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SOPHISTS - Protagoras of Abdera Quotes 5 quotes - SUPPLEMENT
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"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abiding by the truth, and so would have saved our life."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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08 PYRRHONIAN SKEPTICISM - Pyrrho of Elea (c. 360-270 BCE)
Σκεπτικισμός - Πύρρων ο Ηλείος
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01 GREAT GREECE ( GREEK SPEAKING LOWER ITALY ) ( MAGNA GRAECIA ) - Ionians - Pythagoras of Samos (570-495 BCE)
Πυθαγόρειοι φιλόσοφοι - Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος
Πυθαγόρειοι φιλόσοφοι - Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος
Bust of Pythagoras of Samos in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Bust of Pythagoras, Vatican
A scene at the Chartres Cathedral shows a philosopher, on one of the archivolts over the right door of the west portal at Chartres, which has been attributed to depict Pythagoras.
Croton on the southern coast of Magna Graecia (Southern Italy), to which Pythagoras ventured after feeling overburdened in Samos.
Excerpt from Philolaus Pythagoras book, (Sir William Smith, 1870)
The Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (c).
Pythagoras, the man in the center with the book, teaching music, in The School of Athens by Raphael
Pythagoras, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Pythagoras, depicted on a 3rd-century coin
the Chrysa Epe (Golden Verses) of Pythagoras
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Quotations by Pythagoras
Quotations by Pythagoras
Number rules the universe.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
Iamblichus
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.
Number is the within of all things.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings.
Time is the soul of this world.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS
THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS
1. First worship the Immortal Gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law.
2. Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light.
3. Honour likewise the Terrestrial Dæmons by rendering
NOTES ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF HIEROCLES.
NOTES ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF HIEROCLES.
them the worship lawfully due to them.
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4. Honour likewise thy parents, and those most nearly related to thee.
5. Of all the rest of mankind, make him thy friend who distinguishes himself by his virtue.
6. Always give ear to his mild exhortations, and take example from his virtuous and useful actions.
7. Avoid as much as possible hating thy friend for a slight fault.
8. [And understand that] power is a near neighbour to necessity.
9. Know that all these things are as I have told thee; and accustom thyself to overcome and vanquish these passions:--
10. First gluttony, sloth, sensuality, and anger.
11. Do nothing evil, neither in the presence of others, nor privately;
12. But above all things respect thyself.
13. In the next place, observe justice in thy actions and in thy words.
14. And accustom not thyself to behave thyself in any thing without rule, and without reason.
15. But always make this reflection, that it is ordained by destiny that all men shall die.
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16. And that the goods of fortune are uncertain; and that as they may be acquired, so may they likewise be lost.
17. Concerning all the calamities that men suffer by divine fortune,
18. Support with patience thy lot, be it what it may, and never repine at it.
19. But endeavour what thou canst to remedy it.
20. And consider that fate does not send the greatest portion of these misfortunes to good men.
21. There are among men many sorts of reasonings, good and bad;
22. Admire them not too easily, nor reject them.
23. But if falsehoods be advanced, hear them with mildness, and arm thyself with patience.
24. Observe well, on every occasion, what I am going to tell thee:--
25. Let no man either by his words, or by his deeds, ever seduce thee.
26. Nor entice thee to say or to do what is not profitable for thyself.
27. Consult and deliberate before thou act, that thou mayest not commit foolish actions.
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28. For it is the part of a miserable man to speak and to act without reflection.
29. But do that which will not afflict thee afterwards, nor oblige thee to repentance.
30. Never do anything which thou dost not understand.
31. But learn all thou ought'st to know, and by that means thou wilt lead a very pleasant life.
32. in no wise neglect the health of thy body;
33. But give it drink and meat in due measure, and also the exercise of which it has need.
34. Now by measure I mean what will not incommode thee.
35. Accustom thyself to a way of living that is neat and decent without luxury.
36. Avoid all things that will occasion envy.
37. And be not prodigal out of season, like one who knows not what is decent and honourable.
38. Neither be covetous nor niggardly; a due measure is excellent in these things.
39. Do only the things that cannot hurt thee, and deliberate before thou dost them.
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40. Never suffer sleep to close thy eyelids, after thy going to bed,
41. Till thou hast examined by thy reason all thy actions of the day.
42. Wherein have I done amiss? What have I done? What have I omitted that I ought to have done?
43. If in this examination thou find that thou hast done amiss, reprimand thyself severely for it;
44. And if thou hast done any good, rejoice.
45. Practise thoroughly all these things; meditate on them well; thou oughtest to love them with all thy heart.
46. 'Tis they that will put thee in the way of divine virtue.
47. I swear it by him who has transmitted into our souls the Sacred Quaternion, the source of nature, whose cause is eternal.
48. But never begin to set thy hand to any work, till thou hast first prayed the gods to accomplish what thou art going to begin.
49. When thou hast made this habit familiar to thee,
50. Thou wilt know the constitution of the Immortal Gods and of men.
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51. Even how far the different beings extend, and what contains and binds them together.
52. Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things alike,
53. So that thou shalt not hope what thou ought'st not to hope; and nothing in this world shall be hid from thee.
54. Thou wilt likewise know, that men draw upon themselves their own misfortunes voluntarily, and of their own free choice.
55. Unhappy that they are! They neither see nor understand that their good is near them.
56. Few know how to deliver themselves out of their misfortunes.
57. Such is the fate that blinds mankind, and takes away his senses.
58. Like huge cylinders they roll to and fro, and always oppressed with ills innumerable.
59. For fatal strife, innate, pursues them everywhere, tossing them up and down; nor do they perceive it.
60. Instead of provoking and stirring it up, they ought, by yielding, to avoid it.
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61. Oh! Jupiter, our Father! if Thou would'st deliver men from all the evils that oppress them,
62. Show them of what dæmon they make use.
63. But take courage; the race of man is divine.
64. Sacred nature reveals to them the most hidden mysteries.
65. If she impart to thee her secrets, thou wilt easily perform all the things which I have ordained thee.
66. And by the healing of thy soul, thou wilt deliver it from all evils, from all afflictions.
67. But abstain thou from the meats, which we have forbidden in the purifications and in the deliverance of the soul;
68. Make a just distinction of them, and examine all things well.
69. Leaving thyself always to be guided and directed by the understanding that comes from above, and that ought to hold the reins.
70. And when, after having divested thyself of thy mortal body, thou arrivest at the most pure Æther,
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71. Thou shalt be a God, immortal, incorruptible, and Death shall have no more dominion over thee.
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NOTES ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF HIEROCLES.
NOTES ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF HIEROCLES.
The Golden Verses may be divided into two parts, the first treating of the Practical or Human Virtues, whose aim is the making of Good Men; and the second, treating of the Contemplative or Divine Virtues, the end of which is to make Good Men into Gods.
One is greatly struck by the wonderful completeness of the Verses, and their scientific arrangement. They can be divided into groups dealing with practically every aspect and affair of life.
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At the end of the first part (verse 47), we find the Most Solemn Oath that if a man follow these precepts faithfully, he will be ready to tread the further path, to devote himself to the Contemplative Virtues, and to become truly God-like, overcoming Death, and gaining a knowledge of the Gods.
The Verses may be grouped in the following manner:--
PART I.--THE PRACTICAL VIRTUES.
Verses.
1-3. Concerning Higher Intelligences.
4. Concerning Relations.
5-8. Concerning Friends.
9-12. Concerning One's Lower Nature.
13-14. Concerning One's General Behaviour.
15-20. Concerning Death and Misfortunes.
21-23. Concerning Doctrines.
24-31. Concerning Actions and Speech.
32-34. Concerning the Body.
35-39. Concerning the Manner of Life.
40-45. Concerning Introspection.
46, 47. Oath Concerning the Result of the Practical Virtues.
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PART II.--THE CONTEMPLATIVE VIRTUES.
48. Concerning the Help of the Gods.
49-51. Concerning the Nature and Constitution of Gods and Men.
52, 53. Concerning the Nature of the Universe, and what is possible.
54-60. Concerning Ignorance, and the Liberty of the Soul.
61-66. Concerning Knowledge and Deliverance.
67-69. Concerning Purifications.
70, 71. Concerning the Result of the Contemplative Virtues.
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Verse 1. "Worship the Immortal Gods" with an understanding as to their order and function in the universe. For it is Impossible to worship unless you understand to some extent the nature and function of that which you worship. The Gods do not occupy their position by accident, nor from carelessness on the part of the Great Architect, nor are they isolated units independent of each other, but rather are they linked together in such a way as to form
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one perfect whole, like the different parts of one animal.
Pythagoras seems to have divided the beings in the universe roughly into three orders:--
(1) The Immortal Gods whose who live perpetually in the knowledge of God the Father and Creator of all, being secured from change or separation from Him);
(2) The Heroes, and
(3) The Terrestrial Dæmons.
2. Besides the Power that creates a universe, it is necessary that there should be a power that preserves and sustains it, and this power is embodied in the created beings.
For in their essence all beings are of one nature with the Father, and just in so far as they are conscious of Him will they carry out His will and design. They are said to be bound by an Oath to preserve all things in their respective places and to maintain the beauty and harmony of the universe; but this Oath is in reality innate and essential to them, because it is born
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with them and is part of their divine nature. Therefore, the Oath is constantly observed by the Immortal Gods, they being always conscious of the Divine Will; but by the Heroes only to the extent to which they understand and know God.
The mortal Oath--that used amongst men--has to be reverenced as an image of the other, and as leading to the greatest strength and stability of character. And if man would reverence the Oath, then must he do all in his power to understand the laws that govern this universe, and endeavour to preserve harmony and order in all things.
The Illustrious Heroes are the second or middle order of beings, and are turned ever towards God, though not always to the same extent. They are divided into three subdivisions:--(1) The Angels, or Ambassadors (being nearest to the Immortal Gods in their nature); (2) The Dæmons, or Spirits; and (3) The Heroes.
3. The Terrestrial Dæmons are the souls of men, beautified with truth and virtue, being Masters of Wisdom, having true
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knowledge. They are "terrestrial," remaining on earth in order to guide and govern men.
The best worship to be offered to these men (who are men and yet resemble the Illustrious Heroes), is by obeying those precepts they have left and recommended to us, and by following their instructions as laws; purposing to ourselves the same course of life they lead, the tradition of which they have set down in writing. This tradition gives the principles of truth and rules of virtue, as an immortal and paternal inheritance, to be preserved to all succeeding generations for the common good. To obey these, and live accordingly, is the truest reverence that can be done them.
4. "Reverence thy parents." But how it those parents be depraved? "If the Divine Law directs us to one thing and our parents to another, then in this deliberation we ought to obey the best, disobeying our parents in those things only in which they recede from the Divine Laws."
But always a most willing service and obedience must be rendered in all things pertaining to the body or estate.
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To all others, the duties are in proportion to the nearness of the relationship.
7, 8. Never must friendship be broken for the sake of riches, or glory, or other frail and perishable things. Only if the friend falls into a corrupt and degraded mode of life is it right to break the sacred tie of friendship, and then only after every effort has been made to bring him back to the ways of virtue.
Hierocles warns us that we have far more strength than we imagine, and all we need is to feel the necessity of preserving friendship.
11, 12. If a man makes himself his own guardian, he is then not likely to fall into evil ways if he is out of the reach of public opinion, nor will he be rushed into folly through the influence of companions.
17. Such calamities as diseases, poverty, loss of friends, etc., are not real ills, for they hurt not the soul, unless it suffers Itself to be precipitated into vice by them.
21-23. One should be able to hear every sort of doctrine patiently, carefully discriminating between the true and the false.
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"But it falsehoods be advanced," i. e., false reasonings.
45. This verse completes the instruction concerning the Civil or Practical Virtues; verse 48 begins the Instruction concerning the Contemplative Virtues.
Regarding the practical virtues, Hierocles points out that the three aspects of the soul should be employed on them together, (1) Activity, (2) the Mind, and (3) the Emotions.
47. "I swear it by him," i. e., by Pythagoras. The knowledge of the Quaternion was one of the chief precepts among the Pythagoreans.
51. "How far they extend themselves," expresses their specific difference, and "What contains and binds them together" marks their generic community.
53. "Thou shalt not hope what thou ought'st not to hope," knowing the nature of all things, and what is possible.
55. The Gods near at hand are virtue and truth.
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59, 60. The fatal strife is caused by our inclination "madly to run counter to God's laws." it is this strife that should be avoided by yielding to the will of God.
62. The Dæmon of whom they make use is their own soul, or essence, for to see and know this is to be freed from all evils.
67. The Purifications are divided into two parts, one concerning itself with the physical body, and the other with the "luminous body."
The Deliverance of the Soul is accomplished by "Dialecticks, which science is the intimate inspection of beings."
Of the two former, one purifies through diet and the whole management and usage of the mortal body; and the other employs the Mathematical Sciences, Meditation, and Religious Ceremonies.
All three Purifications must be accomplished if man would become free, and Godlike. It is to be noted that they deal with (1) the body, (2) the emotions and lower mind, and (3) the higher mind.
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Σωκράτης
A bust of Socrates in the Louvre
Socrates and Alcibiades, by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Carnelian gem imprint representing Socrates, Rome, 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Statue of Socrates in front of the Academy of Athens (modern)
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Wisdom, Knowing, True
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Be as you wish to seem.
Wisdom, Wish, Seem
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Life, Beware, Busy
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Marriage, Good, Happy
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wisdom begins in wonder.
Wisdom, Wonder, Begins
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Saint Patrick's Day, Good, Best
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Knowledge, True, Meaning
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Intelligence
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Wisdom, Life, True
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Himself, Move
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Illusion, Morality, True
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Poetry, Wisdom, Mean
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Time, Men, Improving
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Nature, Content, Wealth
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Death, Themselves, Realize
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life, Worth, Living
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink, Worth, Eat
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Desires, Often, Hate
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Courage, Against, Enemy
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Woman, Once, Becomes
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Evil, Ought, However
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Friendship, Art, Fall
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Great, Honor, Greatest
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Good, Desire, Reputation
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive, Wisest
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty, Tyranny
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Fear, Everywhere, Reverence
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Men, Immortal, Souls
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest, Politician
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Until, Proud, Known
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Good, Power, Might
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Life, Good, Valued
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Living, Matters, Rightly
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Common, Equal, Contented
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beauty, Delight, Bait
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Evil, Soul, False
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Death, Greatest, Blessings
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Marriage, Sure, Course
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An honest man is always a child.
Child, Honest
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Life, God, Soul
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Gods, Poets
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Fact, Ignorance, Except
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SOCRATICS - Socrates Quotes 112 quotes - SUPPLEMENT
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"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"The hottest love has the coldest end."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Love Quotes Heartbreak Quotes
"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: None
"Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: None
"The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Slander Quotes
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Riches Quotes
"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes
"Philosophy begins with wonder"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes Teaching Quotes
"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Living Quotes
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime."
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"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Knowledge Quotes
"Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Kindness Quotes
"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Justice Quotes
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Instinct Quotes
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Improvement Quotes
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Ignorance Quotes
"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Humorous Quotes
"How many are the things I can do without!"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Humility Quotes
"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Honor Quotes
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"Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Illusion Quotes
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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Revenge Quotes
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Be as you wish to seem."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Living Quotes
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Soul Quotes
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Glory Quotes
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Glory Quotes
"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fortune Quotes
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fire Quotes
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fear Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"An honest man is always a child."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fame Quotes
"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fame Quotes
"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes Senses Quotes
"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes Listening Quotes
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Good And Evil Quotes
"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
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"Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Equality Quotes
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Equality Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Envy Quotes
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Envy Quotes
"Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Enjoyment Quotes
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Desire Quotes
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Desire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Desire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Deception Quotes Opinions Quotes
"If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Debate Quotes
"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Death Quotes
"Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Cute Love Quotes Sweet Love Quotes
"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Love Quotes Cute Love Quotes
"We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Courage Quotes
"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Courage Quotes
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Correction Quotes
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Contentment Quotes
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Contentment Quotes
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Compliments Quotes
"I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Citizenship Quotes
"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Education Quotes Circumstance Quotes
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Children Quotes
"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Caring Quotes
"A multitude of books distracts the mind."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Books And Reading Quotes
"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Body Quotes
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Blessings Quotes
"My belief is that to have no wants is divine"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Belief Quotes
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"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth"
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Anger Quotes
"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Famous Quotes
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wedding Quotes Advice Quotes
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Life Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"She soars on her own wings."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes
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15 SEVEN (7) ANCIENT SAGES - Thales of Miletus Quotes
προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - ο αρχαιότερος προσωκρατικός φιλόσοφος,
προσωκρατικοί φιλόσοφοι - ο αρχαιότερος προσωκρατικός φιλόσοφος,
επτά (7) σοφοί της αρχαιότητας - ο πρώτος των επτά (7) σοφών της αρχαιότητας - Θαλής ο Μιλήσιος
επτά (7) σοφοί της αρχαιότητας - ο πρώτος των επτά (7) σοφών της αρχαιότητας - Θαλής ο Μιλήσιος
Thales of Miletus
Thales (Electricity), sculpture from "The Progress of Railroading" (1908), main facade of Union Station (Washington, DC)
Thales, Nuremberg Chronicle.
Thales' Theorem:
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Life, Difficult
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There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
Woman, Three, Born
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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Universe, Stronger, Necessity
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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Good, Men, Hope
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Thales.html
Quotations by Thales of Miletus
Quotations by Thales of Miletus
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
Quoted in H Eves In Mathematical Circles (Boston 1969).
Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
Quoted in Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum
I did not become a father because I am fond of children.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
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16 PERIPATETIC - Theophrastus Quotes
Περιπατητική Σχολή - Θεόφραστος απο την Ερεσό ( ο Ερέσιος )
Περιπατητική Σχολή - Θεόφραστος απο την Ερεσό ( ο Ερέσιος )
Statue of Theophrastus, Orto botanico di Palermo
Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Strato of Lampsacus. Part of a fresco in the portico of the University of Athens painted by Carl Rahl, c. 1888.
Theophrastus, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle
The bust inscribed "Θεόφραστος Μελάντα Ἐρέσιος (Theophrastos Melanta Eresios)"
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Time, Valuable, Spend
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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Define, Base, Flattery
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The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Next, Ambition, Dinner
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Face, Yes, Appear
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
Horse, Judgment, Orator
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We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Life, Nature, Point
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17 ELEATIC - IONIANS - Xenophanes of Colophon Quotes
Ελεατική Σχολή - Ξενοφάνης απο την Κολοφώνα ( ο Κολοφώνιος )
Ελεατική Σχολή - Ξενοφάνης απο την Κολοφώνα ( ο Κολοφώνιος )
Xenophanes, 17th-century engraving
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
Men, Hands, Works
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Wise, Takes, Recognize
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Truth, Happen, Chance
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Wisdom, Good, Strength
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
God, Men, Mind
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
God, Men, Greatest
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
Beginning, Gods, Reveal
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Men create the gods in their own image.
Men, Create, Image
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Work, Men, Themselves
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
Men, Learning, Begin
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Wisdom, Men, Strength
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10(11) Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods
everything that is blameworthy and disgraceful among humans
theft and adultery and mutual trickery.
12(14) ... but humans suppose that gods have been born
and wear clothes like theirs and have voice and body.
13(15) But if <horses> or cows or lions had hands
to draw with their hands and produce works of art as men do,
horses would draw the figures of gods like horses
and cows like cows, and they would make their bodies
just as the form which they each have themselves.
14(16) Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black,
and Thracians that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
16(18) Gods of course did not reveal everything to mortals from the beginning,
but in time by searching they improve their discoveries.
17(23) One god, greatest among gods and men,
not at all like mortals in body or mind.
18(24) As a whole he sees, as a whole he thinks and as a whole he hears.
19(26) And always he stays in the same place, not moving at all,
nor is it fitting for him to travel in different directions at different times..
20(25) But with no effort at all he keeps everything moving by the thinking of his mind.
21(29) Everything born and growing is earth and water.
22(27) For all things are from earth and into earth all things come to their end.
23(33) We all are generated from earth and water.
24(28) The upper limit of earth is seen here at our feet, in contact with air;
below it stretches on and on.
25(30) The sea is the source of water and the source of winds;
for without the great sea there would be <no winds>
nor flowing rivers nor rain from the sky, but the great sea
fathers clouds and winds and rivers.
26(32) And the one they call Iris even this is by nature a cloud,
purple and crimson and yellow to see.
28(38) If god had not made yellow honey, people would say
that figs are much sweeter.
29(35) Let these be accepted as opinions like the truth
31(34) And so no man has seen anything clearly nor will anyone know
about the gods and what I say about everything,
for if one should by chance speak about what has come to pass
even as it is, still he himself does not know, but opinion is stretched over all.
32(7) And they say that once as he was passing by when a puppy was being beaten
he took pity on it and spoke as follows:
'Stop! don't hit it! for it is the soul of a friend of mine,
which I recognised when I heard its voice'.
Translation M. R. Wright - note: numbers in parentheses refer to the standard Diels/Kranz order
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02 ELEATIC - Zeno of Elea (c. 490-430 BCE)
Ελεατική Σχολή - Ζήνων απο την Ελέα ( ο Ελεάτης )
Ελεατική Σχολή - Ζήνων απο την Ελέα ( ο Ελεάτης )
Zeno shows the Doors to Truth and Falsity (Veritas et Falsitas). Fresco in the Library of El Escorial, Madrid.
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Zeno's support of Parmenides: if there are many things then how many are they? (1), how big are they? (2), do they make a noise? (6), where are they? (4, 5) how can they move? (6)
1(3) how many? limited and unlimited in number
If there are many things (i) they will be just as many as they are, no more and no less; and if they are just as many as they are, they would be limited (in number).
If there are many things (ii) the things that there are are unlimited; for there will always be other things between the things that there are, and again other things between them, and so the things that there are are unlimited (in number).
2(1) how big? unlimited in size and no size at all
If what exists has no size (megethos) it would not exist. But if it does exist each thing must have some size (megethos) and thickness, and one part of it must be separate/distinct from another. And there is the same argument for what is in front, for that will have size and some part of it will be in front. Indeed, to say this once is similar to saying it for ever, for no such part of it will be the last or the same as a further part. So if there are many things they must be both small and great: so small as to have no size, and so big as to be unlimited (in size).
3(2) If it were added to something else, it would not make it any bigger; for if it has no size at all and were added on, it would not contribute any increase in size, and so what is now being added on would be nothing. And if, while it is being subtracted, the other will be no smaller It is obvious that what was added or subtracted was nothing.
4(4) where are they? in a place and nowhere at all
Where is all of what there is? if there is a place for the things that there are, where would it be? it would be in another place and that in another place and so on and so on. What moves does not move in the place in which it is or in the place in which it is not.
5(A24) If there is a place for the things that are, where would it be? it would be in another place and that in another place and so on and so on.
6(A29) do they make a noise? yes, some noise and no, no sound at all
Zeno: Tell me Protagoras, does a single millet seed make a noise as it falls, or does 1/10,000 of a millet? Protagoras: No.
Zeno: Does a bushel of millet seed make a noise as it falls, or not?
Protagoras: Yes, a bushel makes a noise.
Zeno: But isn't there a ratio (logos) between a bushel of millet seed, and one seed, and 1/10,000 of a seed? Protagoras: Yes, there is.
Zeno: So won't there be the same ratio of sounds between them, for the sounds are in proportion to what makes the sound? And if this is so, if the bushel of millet seed makes a noise so will a single seed and 1/10,000 of a seed.
7(A25-28 from Aristotle Physics 239b-240a) do things move? four puzzles
Zeno has four propositions (logoi) about movement which are puzzling for those who try to solve them:
(i) The Dichotomy (it is impossible to move from one place to another)
The first argument about there being no movement says that the moving object must first reach the half-way mark before the end (and the quarter-mark before the half and so back, so there is no first move; and the three-quarter mark after the half, and so forward so there is no last move).
(ii) The Achilles (Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise)
The second is the one called Achilles. This is it: the slowest will never be overtaken in running by the fastest, for the pursuer must always come to the point the pursued has left, so that the slower must always be some distance ahead.
(iii) The Arrow (the moving arrow is at rest)
The third one mentioned is that the moving arrow is at rest. [cf. Phys293b6: the arrow is at rest at any time when it occupies a space just its own length, and yet it is always moving at any time in its flight (i.e. in the 'now'), therefore the moving arrow is motionless.]
(iv) The Stadium (a time is twice itself)
The fourth is the one about equal blocks moving past equal blocks from opposite directions in the stadium - one set from the end of the stadium and one from the middle - at the same speed; here he thinks that half the time is equal to twice itself.
For example: AAAA are equal stationary blocks, BBBB, equal to them in number and size, are beginning from the half-way point (of the stadium), CCCC equal to these also in size, and equal to the Bs in speed, are coming towards them from the end. It happens of course that the first B reaches the end at the same time as the first C as they move past each other. And it happens that the C passes all the Bs but the Bs only half (the As) so the time is half (itself).
Translation M. R. Wright - note: numbers in parentheses refer to the standard Diels/Kranz order
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18 STOICISM - Zeno of Citium Quotes
Στωικισμός - στωικοί φιλόσοφοι - Ζήνων απο το Κίτιο ( ο Κιτιεύς )
Στωικισμός - στωικοί φιλόσοφοι - Ζήνων απο το Κίτιο ( ο Κιτιεύς )
Zeno of Citium
Modern bust of Zeno in Athens
Zeno, portrayed as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Zeno, thought happiness was a "good flow of life.
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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Death, Evil, Therefore
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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Itself, Attained, Wellbeing
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Reason, Goes, Fate
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