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Diogenes Laërtius
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“Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:— ’T is money makes the man; and he who ’s none Is counted neither good nor honourable.”
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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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“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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“He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.”
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“The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.”
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“Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.”
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“Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.”
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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.”
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“As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.”
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“Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.”
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“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”
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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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“One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.”
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“Another was, "Watch your opportunity.”
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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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“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”
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“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.”
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“Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.”
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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!”
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“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.”
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“He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.”
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“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”
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“Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.”
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“He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.”
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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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“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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“The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.”
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“It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.”
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“Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
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“Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.”
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“Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.”
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“Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.”
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“Time is the image of eternity.”
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“That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.”
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“That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.”
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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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“Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.”
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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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“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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“Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.”
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“Wealth is the sinews of affairs.”
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“The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.”
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“He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.”
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“Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?”
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“Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed.”
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