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.
About Protagoras
Protagoraswas a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato.
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Man is the measure of all things.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)
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.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)
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 to them unwillingly.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)
There are two sides to every question.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490-c.420 BC)