15 ideas
343 | The unexamined life is not worth living for men [Socrates] |
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
339 | Men fear death as a great evil when it may be a great blessing [Socrates] |
344 | If death is like a night of dreamless sleep, such nights are very pleasant [Socrates] |
2 | We should not even harm someone who harms us [Socrates] |
345 | A good man cannot be harmed, either in life or in death [Socrates] |
346 | One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation [Socrates] |
341 | Wealth is good if it is accompanied by virtue [Socrates] |
347 | Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged? [Socrates] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |
338 | Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth [Socrates, by Plato] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |