When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging. Apollonius of Tyana More Quotes by Apollonius of Tyana More Quotes From Apollonius of Tyana There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as Apollonius of Tyana seeming birth appearance In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing. Apollonius of Tyana india cities race Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly. Apollonius of Tyana healing long art The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me! Apollonius of Tyana prayer giving men Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. Apollonius of Tyana person money honor said It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods. Apollonius of Tyana gods must dawn time O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me. Apollonius of Tyana good me sun men All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it. Apollonius of Tyana mine right go earth I have not yet learned to keep still. Apollonius of Tyana learned keep still Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. Apollonius of Tyana end good time manners Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. Apollonius of Tyana lighten cares cause festivals The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. Apollonius of Tyana good me power wisdom A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. Apollonius of Tyana man passion anger love Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part. Apollonius of Tyana living medicine body soul It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error. Apollonius of Tyana his true man noble I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin. Apollonius of Tyana broken wise justice men The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings. Apollonius of Tyana blessings find will golden I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered. Apollonius of Tyana questions teach business people It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself. Apollonius of Tyana himself he duty truth You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence. Apollonius of Tyana understand you silence truth
