Diogenes Laërtius QUOTES

― Diogenes Laërtius , The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

3 " Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience! "

― Diogenes Laërtius

4 " Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

5 " We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

6 " As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

7 " He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest. "

― Diogenes Laërtius , Complete Works (Ancient Classics Book 47)

8 " A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. "

― Diogenes Laërtius , Complete Works (Ancient Classics Book 47)

9 " We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

10 " Stand a little less between me and the sun." Diogenes and I. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

11 " (Diogenes) Bir gün Olympia'dan dönüyordu; çok kalabalık var mıydı, diye sorana, "Kalabalık çoktu, ama insan azdı" diye yanıt verdi. "

― Diogenes Laërtius , The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

12 " And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants, and in consequence of these habits, he was attacked by the dropsy, and so then he returned to the city, and asked the physicians, in a riddle, whether they were able to produce a drought after wet weather. And as they did not understand him, he shut himself up in a stable for oxen, and covered himself with cow-dung, hoping to cause the wet to evaporate from him, by the warmth that this produced. And as he did himself no go good in this way, he died, having lived seventy years; "

― Diogenes Laërtius , The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

13 " One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

14 " One day a man invited him into a richly furnished house, saying 'be careful not to spit on the floor.' Diogenes, who needed to spit, spat in his face, exclaiming that it was the only dirty place he could find where spitting was permitted. "

― Diogenes Laërtius , The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

15 " Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves? "

― Diogenes Laërtius

16 " Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

17 " Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

18 " Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: To know one's self. "

― Diogenes Laërtius

19 " The tired ox treads with a firmer step "

― Diogenes Laërtius

20 " Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said someone to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference. "

― Diogenes Laërtius , Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vol 1, Books 1-5

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