Quotes by Apollonius Of Tyana - Page 1

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.
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Ideal
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O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
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Grant
Unto
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It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
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Dawn
Commune
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Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
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Festivals
Gluttony
Increase
Cares
Cause
Diseases
Lighten
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Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
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Another Time
Good Manners
Manners
Time Good Your
Begin
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All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.
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Over It
Mine
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It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
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Noble
Perceive
Err
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The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
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Men
Giving
Prayer
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There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
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Appearance
Birth
Seeming
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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
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Approval
Deserve
Thanks
Virtue
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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
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Deliver
Instructions
Persuaded
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I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
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Wise
Broken
Poor
Reign
Rich
Sin
Pray
Follows
Wise Men
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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
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Democracy
Guidance
Leader
Scandal
Itself
Despot
Prone
Popular
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I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
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Delight
Roof
Temples
Closed
Lodge
Partner
Regularly
Reject
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I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
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Teach
Asked
Discovered
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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
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Silence
Wonder
Languages
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Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
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Strings
Understood
Imperial
Tune
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In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
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Excellence
Grows
Opposites
Shrinks
Wealth
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I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.
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Anguish
Wealth
Caused
Blamed
Embittered
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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
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Honor
Masters
Rejoice
Virtue
Creates
Master
Himself
Principle
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The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
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Wisdom
Acquire
Deserve
Humans
Please
Seems
Good Power Me
Sacrifices
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O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.
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Acquaintance
Sun
Good Men Me
Bad Ones
Good Men
Thine
Send
Thou
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In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.
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Cities
India
Race
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Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
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Helping
Incapable
Reputation
Single Person
Any Other Way
Presumably
Singular
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If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
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Coward
Hail
Philosopher
Account
Superior
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If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
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Solutions
Beforehand
Furnish
Settle
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Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.
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Wisdom
Stones
Contains
Equivalent
Subject
Such Things
Theaters
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Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
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All Things
Monarchy
Welfare
Best Man
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I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
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Friendship
Literature
Future May People
Teachers
Towards
Neither
Nor
Philosophers
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When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.
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Digging
Praise
Sail
Achievements
Complete
Crossed
Neither
Nor
Review
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The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
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Golden
Healthy
Beneficent
Blessings
Crowning
Send
Surely
Vice
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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Diseased
Godlike
Medicine
Unhealthy
Soul Must Body
Living Thing
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As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
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Discernment
Dying
Philosopher
Flee
Seek
Neither
Soldiers
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Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.
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Art
Healing
Long
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Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
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Gold
Sand
Taxes
Wealth
Base
Gathered
Heap
Nearest
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In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
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Accomplished
Arabia
Beast
Crooked
Horrible
India
Armed
Wild
Commonly
Heads
Nor
Travels
Tyrant
Wider
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A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
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Anger
Wise
Combination
Greed
Impulse
Laziness
Vices
Pardoned
Fortify
Odious
Prompted
Render
Wise Man
Yields
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