Protagoras Quotes
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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.
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
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Man is the measure of all things.
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There are two sides to every question.
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You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
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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.
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As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
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When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.