“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
― Apology
― Apology
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Apology
― Apology
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
Classics and the Western Canon
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