Antisthenes Quotes

• There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

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  Love, Friendship, Dream

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• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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  Life, Wisdom, Truth

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• Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

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  Happiness, Lying, Men

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• The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

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  Clarity, Investigation, Communicate

  "Discourses of Epictetus". Book by Arrian, I, 17,

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• States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

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  Men, Good Man, States

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

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• It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

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  Fall, Crow, Alive

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 4),

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• It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

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  Royal, Privilege, Ill

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),

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• Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

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  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

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  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

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  Philosophy, Able, Advantage

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• As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

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  Men, Iron, Envy

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• Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

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  Learning, Kind, Unlearn

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• When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

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  Brother, Strong, Sibling

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• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

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  Weed, War, Men

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• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

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  Lying, Soul, Opulence

  "Symposium" by Xenophon, (iv. 35),

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• The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

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  Learning, Evil, Unlearn

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• I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

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  Mad, Pleasure, Feels

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

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  Running, Teaching, Mad

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 779-80, 1922.

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• Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

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  Marriage, Arise, Quarrels

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• It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

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  Life, Fall, Crow

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• How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

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  Unlearn

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 7),

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• I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

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  Wicked, Done, Wicked Things

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (Book 6: The Cynics)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

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  Doe, Royalty

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