Diogenes Laërtius Quotes

Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.

Time is the image of eternity.

When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."

He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

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

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.