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Diogenes Laërtius

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• “The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man.”

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  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God"; that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny"; Theophrastus, "a silent deceit"; Theocritus, "an ivory mischief"; Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards".”

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  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead.”

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• “It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

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• “He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies.”

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• “Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.”

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• “The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us.”

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• “He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved.”

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• “Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.”

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• “The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.”

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• “He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.”

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• “It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.”

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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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• “When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.”

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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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• “Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.”

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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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• “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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• “All things are in common among friends.”

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• “Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land.”

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• “Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails.”

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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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• “Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.”

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• “When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet.”

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• “Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”

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• “When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another.”

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• “Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.”

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• “When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.”

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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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• “When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.”

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• “They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.”

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• “One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”

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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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• “They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.”

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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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• “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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• “One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.”

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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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• “He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.”

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• “Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.”

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• “In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.”

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• “Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.”

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• “It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”

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• “Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”

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• “Nothing can be produced out of nothing.”

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• “Xenophanes speaks thus:— And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.”

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• “Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down.”

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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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• “The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.”

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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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