Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."
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He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
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Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.
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Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
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The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Xenophanes speaks thus:—
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.
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Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.
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That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
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Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
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