| 13773 | For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course [Socrates] |
| 21336 | Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch] |
| 2913 | Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche] |
| 7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
| 23889 | Among the Greeks Aristotle is the only philosopher in the modern style [Weil] |
| 12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |