Sacrifice to the Graces. Diogenes Laertius More Quotes by Diogenes Laertius More Quotes From Diogenes Laertius When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned! Diogenes Laertius said education teacher Time is the image of eternity. Diogenes Laertius eternity time That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. Diogenes Laertius estates doe men Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference. Diogenes Laertius life-and-death differences doe Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper. Diogenes Laertius said too-late men When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another. Diogenes Laertius self easy said Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will. Diogenes Laertius speak knows men The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes Laertius penetrate sun Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue. Diogenes Laertius blushing virtue boys The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. Diogenes Laertius unity fate names One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it. Diogenes Laertius ifs lost But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated. Diogenes Laertius fate causes world The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. Diogenes Laertius mountain distance hands Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals. Diogenes Laertius mercury soul animal 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. Diogenes Laertius mad men thinking 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. Diogenes Laertius sea men hands Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. Diogenes Laertius body plato soul Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man. Diogenes Laertius daytime looking-for-a-man men Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world. Diogenes Laertius wise men country 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 distance four sides
