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From: Gaardner, Jostein (1991): SOPHIE'S WORLD, Phoenix Paperback


'The only thing i know is that i know nothing'
- Socrates (470-399)

'What a lot of things I don't need!'
- Socrates at a marketplace


The gods are not to be feared;
Death is nothing to worry about;
Good is easy to attain;
The fearful is easy to endure.
- "Four Medicinal Herbs of the Epicureans


"Our heart is not quiet in rest until it rests in Thee"
- St. Augustine (354-430), who "christianised" Plato

"Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!"
- Marcilio Ficino

Cogito, ergo sum -- i think, therefore i am
- Descartes (1596-?)