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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Sacrifice to the Graces.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Stand a little less between me and the sun." Diogenes and I.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said someone to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference.
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By AnonymDiogenes Laertius
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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