Antisthenes Quotes

#1. Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

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#2. The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

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#3. It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .

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

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#5. Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.

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#6. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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#7. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

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#8. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

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#9. The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

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#10. I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

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#11. States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

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#12. Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

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#13. Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

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#14. The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.

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#15. 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.

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#16. We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

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#17. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

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#18. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

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#19. It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

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#20. As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

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#21. I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

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#22. How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

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#23. Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

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