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The Stoics also teach that Go...

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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Pythagoras used to say that h...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Diogenes lighted a candle in ...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Pittacus said that half was m...

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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A man once asked Diogenes wha...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And n...

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

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Euripides says,-Who knows but...

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

If appearances are deceitful,...

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Aristippus said that a wise m...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Diogenes, when asked from wha...

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

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When asked what learning was ...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Apollodorus says, "If any one...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Ignorance plays the chief par...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Diogenes said once to a perso...

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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But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Z...

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Bo?thus 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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Once when Bion was at sea in ...

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.

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That man does not possess his...

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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Diogenes would frequently pra...

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

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The mountains too, at a dista...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

There is a written and an unw...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

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