Today Quotes
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This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
In soft regions are born soft men.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Man is the measure of all things.Protagoras, Fragment 1
There are two sides to every question.Protagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, 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, 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, from Plutarch, Of Banishment