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- Man is the measure of all things.
- Protagoras (485 BC - 421 BC), Fragment 1
- There are two sides to every question.
- Protagoras (485 BC - 421 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
- Word is a shadow of a deed.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC), Fragment 145
- As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Epidemics
- Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Precepts
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
- Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
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