21 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] |
| 22140 | The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great [Grice] |
| 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] |
| 14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 14522 | What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail? [Epicurus] |
| 3563 | Pleasure and virtue entail one another [Epicurus] |
| 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] |
| 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
| 14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
| 14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
| 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |