Diogenes Laërtius - Soul Quotes

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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 Laërtius

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.

Diogenes Laërtius

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

Diogenes Laërtius

Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.

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Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

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He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."

Diogenes Laërtius