14 ideas
13560 | A wise man is not subservient to anything [Seneca] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
13558 | The supreme good is harmony of spirit [Seneca] |
13559 | I seek virtue, because it is its own reward [Seneca] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
13561 | Virtue is always moderate, so excess need not be feared [Seneca] |
13562 | It is shameful to not even recognise your own slaves [Seneca] |
13564 | There is far more scope for virtue if you are wealthy; poverty only allows endurance [Seneca] |
13565 | If wealth was a good, it would make men good [Seneca] |
13563 | Why does your wife wear in her ears the income of a wealthy house? [Seneca] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
13557 | Unfortunately the majority do not tend to favour what is best [Seneca] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |