19 ideas
| 14519 | It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man [Epicurus] |
| 14518 | In the study of philosophy, pleasure and knowledge arrive simultaneously [Epicurus] |
| 1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
| 14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
| 22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
| 18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
| 14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
| 3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
| 14522 | What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail? [Epicurus] |
| 5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
| 3563 | Pleasure and virtue entail one another [Epicurus] |
| 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] |
| 3560 | Justice is merely a contract about not harming or being harmed [Epicurus] |
| 14517 | We value our own character, whatever it is, and we should respect the characters of others [Epicurus] |
| 14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
| 14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
| 1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |