Diogenes Laertius Quotes

• When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

  Diógenes Laercio

  Self, Easy, Said

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• Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

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  Men, Looking For A Man, Daytime

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

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  Want, Said

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• Time is the image of eternity.

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  Time, Eternity

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

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  Ignorance, Men, Play

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

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  Men, Doe, Estates

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• Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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  Fortune, Unstable

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• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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  Greatest Love, Used, Great Value

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• ¡Ánimo, muchacho! Ésa es la complexión de la virtud.

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  Boys, Virtue, Blushing

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• Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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  Lying, Littles, Faces

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

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  Iron, People, Rust

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• The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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  Sun, Penetrate

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• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time 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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  Men, Answers, Rich

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

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  Sabio, País, Hombres

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• Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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  Men, Grieving, Land

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• Hay una ley escrita y otra no escrita. Aquella por la que regulamos nuestras constituciones en nuestras ciudades es la ley escrita; la que surge de las costumbres es la ley no escrita.

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  Law, Cities, Constitution

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• Sacrifice to the Graces.

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  Sacrifice, Grace

  Diogenes Laertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics

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• Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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  Country, Citizens, World

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

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  Exceso

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• Whichever you do, you will repent it.

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  Arrepiéntase

  Diogenes Laertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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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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  Hate, Men, Long

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• Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

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  Book, Would Be, Paper

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• Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

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  Eye, Shade, Way

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• Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

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  Venganza

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• One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

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  Thinking, Men, Mad

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