02c. 200 AD'T is money makes the man; and he who 's none Is counted neither good nor honourable.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
03c. 200 ADThales 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 / quote ↗
04c. 200 ADWhen Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one's self." And what was easy, "To advise another."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
05c. 200 ADHe said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
07c. 200 ADWriters differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
08c. 200 ADSolon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
09c. 200 ADSolon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
10c. 200 ADAs some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
13c. 200 ADHeraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
14c. 200 ADOne of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
16c. 200 ADBias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
17c. 200 ADIgnorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words; but opportunity will prevail.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
19c. 200 ADAnarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
20c. 200 ADHe used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
21c. 200 ADIt was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
22c. 200 ADEpimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
23c. 200 ADThere are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
24c. 200 ADAnaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,—not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
