Diogenes Laërtius Short Quotes

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That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.

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The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.

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Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

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He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

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He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.

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When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."

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The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

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Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.

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He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.

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

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He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.

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

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Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."

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Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."

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One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."

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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."

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

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Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.

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

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They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.

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

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One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."

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When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."

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Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

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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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