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- 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
- I know nothing except the fact of my 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
- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, Of Banishment
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
- A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen in Health
- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
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