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Athenaeus
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“For it would be unbecoming, says Aristotle, to come to banquet covered in sweat and dust; for the true gentleman should neither be dirty nor be unwashed nor [Rejoice in mire], as Heraclitus says.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: VII, 11. Compare: "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). 29 Vol. ii. Chap. ix. 1763.
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“οὐκ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ τὸ εὖ κείμενον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ μέγα.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source