Top 15 Antisthenes Quotes

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn."

ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”

Count all wickedness foreign and alien.

τὰ πονηρὰ νόμιζε πάντα ξενικά.

ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς ἡ αὐτὴ ἀρετή.

One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.

προσέχειν τοῖς ἐχθροῖς· πρῶτοι γὰρ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων αἰσθάνονται.

κρεῖττόν ἐστι μετ᾿ ὀλίγων ἀγαθῶν πρὸς ἅπαντας τοὺς κακοὺς ἢ μετὰ πολλῶν κακῶν πρὸς ὀλίγους ἀγαθοὺς μάχεσθαι.

τὸν σοφὸν οὐ κατὰ τοὺς κειμένους νόμους πολιτεύσεσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς.

τήν τ᾿ ἀδοξίαν ἀγαθὸν καὶ ἴσον τῷ πόνῳ