Protagoras quotes

There are two sides to every question. (Protagoras)
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. View quote
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Man is the measure of all things. View quote
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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. View quote
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As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life. View quote
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Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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