12 ideas
| 9198 | It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot] |
| 9197 | The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot] |
| 20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 23146 | Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver] |
| 9196 | The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot] |
| 23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
| 23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
| 23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |
| 23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
| 3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |
| 3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |