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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.
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In the
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of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.
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It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that
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was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper
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for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
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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
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, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future
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they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
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Diogenes Laërtius
Born:
180
Died:
240
(aged 60)
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