“He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.”
Pythagoras, 6.
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“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”
Cleobulus, 4.
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Bion, 3.
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Aristotle, 9.
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“When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."”
Diogenes, 6.
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“When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."”
Zeno, 19.
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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.”
Bion, 3.
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“In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.”
Pythagoras, 25.
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“That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.”
Plato, 42.
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“Time is the image of eternity.”
Plato, 41.
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“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”
Socrates, 16.
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Menedemus, 3.
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“All things are in common among friends.”
Diogenes, 6.
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Epimenides, 2.
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Bias, 5.
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Diogenes, 6.
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“The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.”
Aristotle, 13.
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“He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.”
Epicurus, 25.
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“One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."”
Chrysippus, 11.
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Aristotle, 9.
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“Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.”
Epicurus, 27.
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Pyrrho, 8.
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Solon, 10.
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“Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."”
Chilo, 2.
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Aristotle, 9.
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Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
“One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."”
Pittacus, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
Pythagoras, 17.
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Myson, 3.
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