10 ideas
| 21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
| 23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
| 23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
| 23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
| 23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
| 14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
| 1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |