The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful. Notes from Underground
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. Book IV
'...it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral The Trial
There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage. Is not that a special attribute of the philosopher? ...Again, there is temperance. Is not the calm, and control, and disdain of the passions which even the many call temperance, a quality belonging only to those who despise the body and live in philosophy? The Trials Of Socrates
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