“When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.”
“The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.”
“Man is the measure of all things.”
“Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.”
“There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.”
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.”
“My own opinion is more or less this: no wise man believes that anyone sins willingly or willingly perpetuates any base or evil act; they know very well that every base or evil action is committed involuntarily.”
“Man is the measure of all things of things that are, that they are, of things are not, that they are not.”
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