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28 Cards in this Set
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“I shall call upon the god at Delphi as a witness to the existence and nature of my wisdom”
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Apology
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“What is probably, gentlemen, is that in fact the god is wise and that his oracular response meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing.”
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Apology
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“This man among you mortals is wisest who…understands that his wisdom is worthless.”
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Apology
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“These people are ambitious, violent, and numerous; they are continually and convincingly talking about me; they have been filling your ears a long time with vehement slanders against me.”
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Apology
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“I should have to be in ordinately fond of life, men of Athens, to be so unreasonable as to suppose that other men will easily tolerate my company and conversation when you, my fellow citizens, have been unable to endure them, but found them a burden and resented them so that you are now seeking to get rid of them.”
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Apology
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”We shall see that a city-state is a community of some sort, and that every community is established for the sake of the good.”
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Politics
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“Female and male do the same for procreation (they do not do so form the deliberate choice, but, like other animals and plants, because the urge to leave behind something of the same kind as themselves is natural) and as a natural ruler and what is naturally ruled for the sake of survival.”
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Politics
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“For the city-state is their end, and nature is an end; for we say that each thing is nature.”
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Politics
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“Since it is evident from what parts of a city-state is constituted, we must first discuss household management, for every city-state is constituted from households. The parts of household management correspond in turn to the parts from which the household is constitute, a complete household consists of slaves and free.”
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Politics
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“For free rules slaves, male rules females, and man rules child in different ways, because, while the parts of the soul are present within these people, they are present in different ways. The deliberative part of the soul is entirely missing from a slave; a woman has it, but it lacks authority; a child has it, but it is incompletely developed.”
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Politics
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“Besides all these things, a statesman should know which constitution is more appropriate for all city-states.”
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Politics
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“In addition to democracy and oligarchy, so-called polity arises, and how it should be established. At the same time, however, the defining principles of democracy and oligarchy will also become clear”
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Politics
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“And we distinguished two kinds of tyranny while we were investigating kingship, because their power somehow also overlaps with kinship owing to the fact that both are based on law.”
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Politics
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“What is the best constitution, and what is the best life for most city-states and most human beings, judging neither by a virtue that is beyond the reach of ordinary people, nor by a kind of education that requires natural gifts and resources that depend on luck, nor by the ideal constitution, but by a life that most people can share and a constitution in which most city-states can participate.”
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Politics
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“It is also clear why a human being is more of a political animal than a beeor any other gregarious animal. Nature makes nothing pointlessly, as we say, and no animal has speech except a human being.”
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Politics
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“And here are all the descendents of Iulus. Destined to come under heaven’s great dome. And the man promised you—born of gods, Who will establish again a Golden Age”
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Aeneid
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”The Greeks held the city gates. There was no hope of help. I yielded and, lifting up my father, sought the mountains”
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Aeneid
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“The two heroes, weapons and spirit restored, One trusting his sword, both panting for breath. Stood face to face in the arena of War.”
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Aeneid
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“The troubled ghost of my father…admonishes me every night in my dreams when the darkness covers the earth, and the fiery stars rise. And my dear son…am I to wrong him by cheating him of his inheritance…his destined land?”
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Aeneid
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“He is my brother and—deny it as you will—your brother too. No one will convict me as a traitor.”
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Antigone
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“As I see it, whoever assumes the task, the awesome task f setting the city’s course, and refuses to adopt the soundest policies but fearing someone, keeps his lips locked tight, he’s utterly worthless…And whoever places a friend over the good of his own country, he is nothing.”
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Antigone
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“Go down below and love, if you love, if you must love—love the dead! While I’m alive, no woman is going to lord it over me.”
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Antigone
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“What a splendid king you’d make of a desert island—you and you alone.”
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Antigone
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“Let the dead and the god of death bear witness! I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”
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Antigone
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“Our wise man feels his troubles but overcomes them, while their wise man does not even feel them. We share with them the belief that the wise man is content with himself.”
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Letters from a Stoic
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“For no one is worth of a god unless he has paid no heed to riches. I am not, mind you, against possessing them, but I want to ensure that you possess them without tremors; and this you will only achieve in one way, by convincing yourself that you can live a happy life even without them, and by always regarding then as being on the point of vanishing”
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Letters from a Stoic
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“With afflictions of the spirit, though, the opposite is the case; the worse a person is, the less he feels it.”
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Letters from a Stoic
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“Once you have rid yourself of affliction…every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you find yourself stationed, you will find that place…as hospitable home. We should live with the conviction: I wasn’t born for one particular corner: the whole world is my home country.”
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Letters from a Stoic
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