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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Sophocles

Literature

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus

Literature

Someone, I tell you, in another time, will remember us.

Sappho

Literature

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy

Esse est percipi (To be is to be perceived).

George Berkeley

Philosophy

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Philosophy

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

William of Ockham

Philosophy

By doubting we are led to inquire; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Peter Abelard

Philosophy

Indeed, we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought.

Anselm of Canterbury

Philosophy

If there is a God, whence come evils? If there is no God, whence come goods?

Boethius

Philosophy

All things are from the One, and the One is all things.

Plotinus

Philosophy

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy

Nothing is honorable or base, just or unjust; and likewise, nothing is true or false, but everything is a matter of custom and convention.

Pyrrho of Elis

Philosophy

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Zeno of Citium

Philosophy

Nothing exists; even if something exists, it cannot be known; even if something can be known, it cannot be communicated to others.

Gorgias

Philosophy

Man is the measure of all things: of things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

Protagoras

Philosophy

All things were in chaos, then Mind came and arranged them.

Anaxagoras

Philosophy

For it is by earth that we see earth, and by water water, and by air bright air, and by fire consuming fire, and by love love, and strife by strife.

Empedocles

Philosophy

That which, being added to another, does not make it larger, and, being taken away from another, does not make it smaller, is nothing.

Zeno of Elea

Philosophy