15 ideas
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] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
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] |
23674 | If an attempted poisoning results in benefits, we still judge the agent a poisoner [Reid] |
23675 | We shouldn't do to others what would be a wrong to us in similar circumstances [Reid] |
23672 | To be virtuous, we must care about duty [Reid] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
23673 | Every worthy man has a principle of honour, and knows what is honourable [Reid] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |