The unexamined life is not worth living.
Man is the measure of all things.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
He is the richest who is content with the least.
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