Diogenes Laertius
Native of Laerte in Cilicia, was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers.
He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."
When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."
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."
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
Xenophanes speaks thus:—
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.
Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"
He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.
It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."