| 16 Famous Quotes by Laertius Diogenes
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“The truly noble mind has no resentments.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“None but the brave deserve the fair.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Take the goods the gods provide thee.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
Education Quotes Source: according to Stobaeus
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“Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does
not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."”
Possession Quotes Source: Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Bion, III)
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“When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laertius Diogenes,”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers--Diogenes (VI), (Yonge's translation)
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“Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.”
Reason Quotes Source: Socrates (V)
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“Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my
boy; that is the complexion of virtue."”
Blushes Quotes Source: Diogenes (VI)
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“He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Lives of the Philosophers--Pythagoras (VI)
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
Existence Quotes |
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Laertius Diogenes Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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