19 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
1564 | True and false statements can use exactly the same words [Anon (Diss)] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
1559 | Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment [Anon (Diss)] |
1560 | Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl [Anon (Diss)] |
1561 | Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others [Anon (Diss)] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
1567 | How could someone who knows everything fail to act correctly? [Anon (Diss)] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
1563 | Every apparent crime can be right in certain circumstances [Anon (Diss), by PG] |
1562 | It is right to lie to someone, to get them to take medicine they are reluctant to take [Anon (Diss)] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
1566 | The first priority in elections is to vote for people who support democracy [Anon (Diss)] |
21006 | If women share rights with men, they will exhibit similar virtues [Wollstonecraft] |
1565 | We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |