Diogenes Laërtius quotes - page 4

Wealth is the sinews of affairs. (Diogenes Laërtius)
Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors. View quote
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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common." View quote
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Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it." View quote
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Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance." View quote
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Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason. View quote
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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man." View quote
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The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's. View quote
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Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit. View quote
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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow. View quote
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That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons. (Diogenes Laërtius)
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down." View quote
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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. View quote
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When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing." View quote
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The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his. View quote
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Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. View quote
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing. View quote
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He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies." View quote
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They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything. View quote
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Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables." View quote
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They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself. (Diogenes Laërtius)
Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. View quote
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Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!" View quote
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It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. View quote
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Old age is the harbor of all ills. View quote
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