Quotes by Diogenes Laertius - Page 1

Sacrifice to the Graces.
Diogenes Laertius / Philosopher
Grace
Sacrifice
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Time is the image of eternity.
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Time
Eternity
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Whichever you do, you will repent it.
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Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
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Fortune
Unstable
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Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.
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Half
Said
Whole
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Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.
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Blushing
Boys
Virtue
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Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
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Wise
Men
Country
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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Penetrate
Sun
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That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
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Men
Doe
Estates
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Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
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Men
Ignorance
Play
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Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
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Grace
Plato
Sacrifice
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Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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Said
Want
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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
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Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
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Men
Knows
Speak
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Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
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Body
Plato
Soul
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One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.
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Ifs
Lost
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Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
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Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."
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Citizens
Country
World
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Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.
Diogenes Laertius / Philosopher
Men
Daytime
Looking For A Man
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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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Eye
Shade
Way
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When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!
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Education
Teacher
Said
Unlearn
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The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
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Distance
Hands
Mountain
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Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
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Men
Life Is
This Life
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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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Easy
Said
Self
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
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Iron
People
Rust
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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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Great Value
Greatest Love
Used
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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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Appearance
Being True
Deceitful
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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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Fate
Names
Unity
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Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
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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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Expression
Opinion
Peculiar
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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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Men
Said
Too Late
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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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Men
Grieving
Land
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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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Distance
Four
Sides
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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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Faces
Littles
Lying
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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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Air
Causes
Water
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Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.
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Differences
Doe
Life And Death
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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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Book
Paper
Would Be
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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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Men
Boys
Practice
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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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Men
Answers
Rich
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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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Cities
Constitution
Law
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But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
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Causes
Fate
World
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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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Animal
Mercury
Soul
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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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Men
Hands
Sea
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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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Men
Mad
Thinking
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It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.
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Men
Sake
Together
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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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Men
Hate
Long
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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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Drinking
Eye
Wind
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