Classical Athens

Quotes & Thinkers from Classical Athens

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"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

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Socrates· b. -469View quote →

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life. ."

"In a democracy . . . someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."

"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame."

"Chorus : Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!"

"Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns."

"Health and intellect are the two blessings of life."

"Even to wise mortals Music carries unceasing feelings..."

Lycurgus

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love."

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."

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"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."

— Socrates, b. -469View →

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

— Socrates, b. -469View →

"It is impossible for a man who secretly violates the terms of the agreement not to harm or be harmed to feel confident that he will remain undiscovered, even if he has already escaped ten thousand times; for until his death he is never sure that he will not be detected. (35)"

— Epicurus, b. -341View →

"And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?"

— Socrates, b. -469View →

"If the immortal is also imperishable, the soul when attacked by death cannot perish; for the preceding argument shows that the soul will not admit of death, or even be dead, any more than three or the odd number will admit of the even..."

— Socrates, b. -469View →

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