1,770 definitions
Adversity (n.) is ultimately a thing we would not exchange for that of another person. If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
The City (n.) is a large-scale embodiment of the soul. He says, 'to consider the soul is to squint at little letters from afar. To regard the city is to look at the same letters but much larger and closer at hand'.
Community (n.) is a reflection of friendship whereby there is both a common bond and a recognition of separate identities.
Cosmopolitanism (n.) is being neither athenian nor greek, but a citizen of the world.
Death (n.) is the separation of soul from body, each having come to be separate alone by itself.
Flattery (n.) is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
Health (n.) is determined by the context of a given discourse just as fasting can sometimes be an activity in health and sometimes in sickness. I am sick insofar as I fail to attain that standard.
Health (n.) is nothing but the harmony among different parts of the body, each carrying out its proper function.
Ignorance (n.) is a disease of the soul. It prevents the soul from functioning properly. Socrates tried to make the people of athens aware that they were inflicted by a double ignorance: They were ignorant and did not know it.
Ignorance (n.) is the origin of all human wrongdoing.
Life itself (n.) is not something to be valued, but rather the good life.
Love (n.) is a desire for what is not in hand. Love impels us to pursue the good because the ultimate good that all men seek is happiness.
Love (n.) is that to which man become a slave (and no enemy can really blame him for it).