| 21405 | Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Long] |
| 20871 | Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly |
| 5893 | A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience |
| 5891 | Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments |
| 2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument |
| 2653 | If the parts of the universe are subject to the law of nature, the whole universe must also be subject to it |
| 2673 | There cannot be more than one truth |
| 21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? |
| 2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem |
| 2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? |
| 2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? |
| 20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality |
| 5879 | The soul is the heart, or blood in the heart, or part of the brain, of something living in heart or brain, or breath |
| 5884 | How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations? |
| 5887 | The soul has a single nature, so it cannot be divided, and hence it cannot perish |
| 5886 | Like the eye, the soul has no power to see itself, but sees other things |
| 6029 | Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be |
| 2628 | Why would mind mix with matter if it didn't need it? |
| 5885 | Souls contain no properties of elements, and elements contain no properties of souls |
| 21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it |
| 20814 | Eloquence educates, exhorts, comforts, distracts and unites us, and raises us from savagery |
| 21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished |
| 2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure |
| 5890 | We should not share the distress of others, but simply try to relieve it |
| 5894 | All men except philosophers fear poverty |
| 6031 | The essence of propriety is consistency |
| 5895 | If one despises illiterate mechanics individually, they are not worth more collectively |
| 2640 | We have the death penalty, but still have thousands of robbers |
| 2652 | Some regard nature simply as an irrational force that imparts movement |
| 2645 | Why shouldn't the gods fear their own destruction? |
| 2627 | I wonder whether loss of reverence for the gods would mean the end of all virtue |
| 2651 | God doesn't obey the laws of nature; they are subject to the law of God |
| 2634 | It seems clear to me that we have an innate idea of the divine |
| 2636 | Many primitive people know nothing of the gods |
| 2650 | If a person cannot feel the power of God when looking at the stars, they are probably incapable of feeling |
| 2655 | If the barbarians of Britain saw a complex machine, they would be baffled, but would know it was designed |
| 2647 | It is obvious from order that someone is in charge, as when we visit a gymnasium |
| 2656 | Chance is no more likely to create the world than spilling lots of letters is likely to create a famous poem |
| 2657 | If everything with regular movement and order is divine, then recurrent illnesses must be divine |
| 2638 | Either the gods are identical, or one is more beautiful than another |
| 2635 | The gods are happy, so virtuous, so rational, so must have human shape |
| 2641 | Why believe in gods if you have never seen them? |
| 2659 | The lists of good men who have suffered and bad men who have prospered are endless |
| 2658 | The gods blame men for having vices, but they could have given us enough reason to avoid them |