Diogenes Laertius

Quote: Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: The truly noble mind has no resentments. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: None but the brave deserve the fair. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Sweet is pleasure after pain. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Take the goods the gods provide thee. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does
not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laertius Diogenes,
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my
boy; that is the complexion of virtue."
[Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, ?Not to unlearn what you have learned!? [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Time is the image of eternity. [Diogenes Laertius]

Quote: Whichever you do, you will repent it. [Diogenes Laertius]

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