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16 Quotes for 'Laertius Diogenes' in the Database.
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Laertius Diogenes Quotes
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Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my
boy; that is the complexion of virtue."
Topic: Blushes
Source: Diogenes (VI)
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Topic: Education
Source: according to Stobaeus
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Lives of the Philosophers--Pythagoras (VI)
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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."
Topic: Possession
Source: Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Bion, III)
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The truly noble mind has no resentments.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
Topic: Reason
Source: Socrates (V)
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When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laertius Diogenes,
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Source: Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers--Diogenes (VI), (Yonge's translation)
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