Diogenes Laërtius - Life Quotes

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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."

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In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.

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

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The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.

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Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"

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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.

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