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Protagoras

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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.


— Protagoras


#aware #base #believes #deeds #does

Man is the measure of all things.


— Protagoras


#man #measure #things

There are two sides to every question.


— Protagoras


#question #sides #two

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.


— Protagoras


#exist #gods #i #knowing #like

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.


— Protagoras


#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.


— Protagoras


#advice #anyone #athenians #city #else






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Did you know about Protagoras?

His death then may be assumed to have occurred circa 420. He immediately took him into his own household and taught him philosophy. Democritus discovered that Protagoras had tied the load himself with such perfect geometric accuracy that it revealed him to be a mathematic prodigy.

490 BC – 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. He is also believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that "man is the measure of all things". Protagoras (pron.

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