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Σωκράτης
λέγει που Ἡράκλειτος ὅτι “πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει,” καὶ ποταμοῦ ῥοῇ ἀπεικάζων τὰ ὄντα λέγει ὡς “δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.”
Socrates
Heracleitus says, you know, that all things move and nothing remains still, and he likens the universe to the current of a river, saying that you cannot step twice into the same stream.
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Ἡράκλειτος τὸ ἀντίξουν συμφέρον καὶ ἐκ τῶν διαφερόντων καλλίστην ἁρμονίαν καὶ πάντα κατ᾽ ἔριν γίνεσθαι: ἐξ ἐναντίας δὲ τούτοις ἄλλοι
Heracleitus says, ‘Opposition unites,’ and ‘The fairest harmony springs from difference,’ and ‘'Tis strife that makes the world go on.’

-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1155b1-6, translated by J. Bywater

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    Few doctrines are announced and articulated as clearly in Plato’s writings, as the thesis that the cosmos hands down certain moral commandments, that it is imbued with an absolute moral authority. Thus Socrates rebuts amoral hedonism advocated by Callicles:And wise men tell us, Callicles, that heaven and earth and gods and men are held together ( Read more... )

PAUVRES. S’en occuper tient lieu de toutes les vertus.
RADICALISME. D’autant plus dangereux qu’il est latent.
RÉPUBLICAINS. Les républicains ne sont pas tous voleurs, mais les voleurs sont tous républicains.
- Gustave Flaubert, Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues
POOR. To concern oneself with them does the duty of all virtues.
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