Diogenes Laertius Quotes

• 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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  Self, Easy, Said

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• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

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  Plato, Soul, Body

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

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  Men, Looking For A Man, Daytime

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• Time is the image of eternity.

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  Time, Eternity

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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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  Lying, Littles, Faces

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• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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  Ignorance, Men, Play

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• Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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  Want, Said

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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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  Greatest Love, Used, Great Value

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• Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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  Fortune, Unstable

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• Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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  Country, Citizens, World

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• Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

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  Boys, Virtue, Blushing

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• Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

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  Wise, Country, Men

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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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• The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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  Sun, Penetrate

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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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• 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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• 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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  Hate, Men, Long

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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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• 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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• 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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  Law, Cities, Constitution

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• Sacrifice to the Graces.

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  Sacrifice, Grace

  Diogenes Laertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics

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• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

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  Excess

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• Whichever you do, you will repent it.

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  Repent

  Diogenes Laertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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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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  Lost, Ifs

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