Diogenes Laertius Quotes
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
— Diogenes Laertius
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
— Diogenes Laertius
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
— Diogenes Laertius
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
— Diogenes Laertius
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
— Raheel Farooq
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
— Diogenes Laertius
All is but illusion and disaster.
— Voltaire
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
— Abel Ferrara
There are so many people I wish I could have met:
— Karolina Kurkova
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.
— Diogenes Laertius
I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so ... angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured.-Oliver — Melissa De La Cruz
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
— Warren Spector
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
— Diogenes Laertius
Time is the image of eternity.
— Diogenes Laertius
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"
— Diogenes Laertius
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
— Diogenes Laertius
Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?""I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be? — Katie Cotugno
I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
— William Sleator
Stand a little less between me and the sun. Diogenes and I.
— Diogenes Laertius
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
— Diogenes Laertius
My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'
— J. R. Smith
Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
— Diogenes Laertius
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
— Diogenes Laertius
Whichever you do, you will repent it.
— Diogenes Laertius
Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?
— Diogenes Laertius
Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: To know one's self.
— Diogenes Laertius
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
— Diogenes Laertius
Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?
— Diogenes Laertius
The tired ox treads with a firmer step
— Diogenes Laertius
Step out of my sunlight.
— Diogenes Laertius
Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.
— Diogenes Laertius
Man is the most intelligent of animals and the most silly. — Diogenes Laertius