The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
Pyrrho, 11. |
He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; 18 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God"; that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny"; Theophrastus , "a silent deceit"; Theocritus , "an ivory mischief"; Carneades , "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards".
Diogenes LaërtiusHe said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
Diogenes LaërtiusThe apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.
Diogenes LaërtiusWriters differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
Diogenes LaërtiusThe saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.
Diogenes LaërtiusAnarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
Diogenes LaërtiusHe used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
Diogenes LaërtiusThe market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
Diogenes LaërtiusPlato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
Diogenes LaërtiusTime is the image of eternity.
Diogenes LaërtiusThe road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
Diogenes LaërtiusAristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."
Diogenes LaërtiusHe used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."
Diogenes LaërtiusAnother of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
Diogenes LaërtiusThe chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
Diogenes LaërtiusAll things are in common among friends.
Diogenes Laërtius"Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land."
Diogenes LaërtiusWhen Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
Diogenes LaërtiusThey say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
Diogenes LaërtiusIn the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.
Diogenes LaërtiusXenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
Diogenes LaërtiusEpicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.
Diogenes LaërtiusHe alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
Diogenes Laërtius