Antisthenes Quotes
- There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who…
- As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
- The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
- Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
- Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
- I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
- When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
- Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
- We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
- Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
- How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
- Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
- To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is…
- The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
- It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
- The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
- Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
- We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.