10 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
| 1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
| 21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
| 3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
| 5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
| 3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |