Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life? — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned! — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
