Diogenes Laertius Quotes - Page 2

• 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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  Book, Would Be, Paper

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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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  Eye, Shade, Way

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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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  Venganza

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• It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Men, Together, Sake

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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.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Thinking, Men, Mad

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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.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Boys, Men, Practice

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• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Plato, Sacrifice, Grace

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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.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Differences, Life And Death, Doe

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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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  Men, Too Late, Said

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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.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Fate, Names, Unity

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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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  Animal, Soul, Mercury

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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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  Appearance, Deceitful, Being True

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• Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Men, Hands, Sea

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• Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Half, Said, Whole

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• When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

  Diógenes Laercio

  Education, Teacher, Said

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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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  Distance, Sides, Four

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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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  Distance, Hands, Mountain

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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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  Fate, World, Causes

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• Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

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  Men, Speak, Knows

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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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  Air, Water, Causes

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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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  Expression, Peculiar, Opinion

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

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  Elogios

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