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Anaximander used to assert th...

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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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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Bury me on my face," said Dio...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

There are many marvellous sto...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Plato was continually saying ...

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

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Anaxagoras said to a man who ...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Aristippus being asked what w...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

One of the sayings of Diogene...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Bias used to say that men oug...

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.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

When Thales was asked what wa...

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

A man should live with his sup...

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

Ignorance plays the chief part...

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

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He used to say that it was bet...

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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The truly noble mind has no re...

The truly noble mind has no resentments.

Diogenes Laertius 33 quotes

And Jove but laughs at lovers'...

And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

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Great wit to madness sure is n...

Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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If gaming does an aged sire en...

If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.

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None but the brave deserve the...

None but the brave deserve the fair.

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