11 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |