12 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |