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Complete Works (Ancient Classics Book 47) QUOTES

Complete Works (Ancient Classics Book 47) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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)

3 " They reject dialectic as superfluous; holding that in their inquiries the physicists should be content to employ the ordinary terms for things. "

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

4 " And further, let the regularity of their orbits be explained in the same way as certain ordinary incidents within our own experience; the divine nature must not on any account be adduced to explain this, but must be kept free from the task and in perfect bliss. "

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