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Diogenes Laertius Inspirational Quotes (28)
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Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
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Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, My opinion is, and So and so will not agree to this.
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Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
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It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.
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Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
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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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There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.
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Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates and when the rest said, We are undone if we are known,-But I, said he, am undone if we are not known.
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Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that the passengers were just that distance from death.
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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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Time is the image of eternity.
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When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!
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Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, I am a citizen of the world.
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The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
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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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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
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Whichever you do, you will repent it.
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Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
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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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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, Nothing in excess.
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Socrates said, Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
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The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
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