2nd-century Philosopher Quotes

Galen

Apuleius

Justin Martyr

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

Diogenes Laërtius

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
If you desire learning, forsake ease.
How can the man at his ease acquire knowledge,
And how can the earnest student enjoy ease?

Make it rather your serious endeavor not only to acquire accurate book knowledge of each bone but also to examine assiduously with your own eyes the human bones themselves

For when you have once begun to serve the Goddess, you will then in a still higher degree enjoy the fruit of your liberty.

It is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world, we have learned; for we know that our Master Jesus Christ said, that 'what is impossible with men is possible with God' (Mt. 19:26)?