Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 490 Bc Death: 430 Bc
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the man….
The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it a….
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or….
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowe….
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own..
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature..
...but what has been said once can always be repeated..
Beauty is the flower of chastity..