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— THE LOVERS OF WISDOM —

Ancient Greek Philosophers

"The unexamined life is not worth living. In these timeless voices, we find the echoes of eternal questions that still resonate within the silence of our souls."

Socrates

470-399 BCE

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

Plato

428-348 BCE

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

Aristotle

384-322 BCE

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Heraclitus

535-475 BCE

"No man ever steps in the same river twice."
"The path up and down are one and the same."
"Nothing is permanent except change."

Epicurus

341-270 BCE

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."
"Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not."

Marcus Aurelius

121-180 CE

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

Diogenes

412-323 BCE

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
"I am a citizen of the world."
"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."

Pythagoras

570-495 BCE

"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons."
"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men."
"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace."

Empedocles

494-434 BCE

"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere."
"God is not something external to be sought, but something within to be realized."
"All things are full of gods."

The Eternal Questions

Who Am I?

The question of self-knowledge that drove Socrates to examine life itself.

What Is Real?

The metaphysical inquiry into the nature of reality and existence.

How Should I Live?

The ethical pursuit of the good life and human flourishing.

"These ancient voices still whisper in the corridors of the soul, reminding us that the greatest journey is not outward to the stars, but inward to the depths of our own being."

— In the tradition of the Perennial Philosophy