01c. 200 ADAnaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
02c. 200 ADAristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
03c. 200 ADOften when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
04c. 200 ADSocrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
05c. 200 ADHe said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
06c. 200 ADHe declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
07c. 200 ADBeing asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
08c. 200 ADHe used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
09c. 200 ADAristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
12c. 200 ADPlato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
15c. 200 ADThat the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
16c. 200 ADThere is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
17c. 200 ADPlato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
18c. 200 ADArcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
19c. 200 ADBion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
20c. 200 ADOnce 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 / quote ↗
21c. 200 ADOf a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
22c. 200 ADBion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
23c. 200 ADVery late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
24c. 200 ADAristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
