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Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."

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He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; 18 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God"; that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny"; Theophrastus, "a silent deceit"; Theocritus, "an ivory mischief"; Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards".

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Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

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He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies."

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Socrates having heard Plato read the Lysis, said, "O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me." For he had set down a great many things as sayings of Socrates which he never said.

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

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

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Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius

Born: 180

Died: 240 (aged 60)

Bio: Diogenes Laertius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.

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Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The Stoics
Sayings of Diogenes the Cynic

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