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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
He claim that humanity should be treated always as an end, and never as a means only -
“Words are the money of fools.” Laws are valid not because they are created in natural law, but because they are enacted by legal authority and are accepted by society as such. -
“The past is certain, the future obscure.” He was a materialist thinker since he attributed everything to one element, water. Despite that, he seems to have believed in the concept of the soul too. -
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” Virtue could be known, though he himself did not profess to know it and that people who act badly, therefore, do so only because of their ignorance or mistake to understand the real nature of virtue. -
“The law is reason, free from passion.” Something that should be done by acting in accordance with nature and with moderation. -
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Flipped to the view of business and branding, The Good is all about helping people live a better life -
“Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you.”