Top 38 Antisthenes Quotes
#1. What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? - It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.
Epictetus
#2. In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?
Diogenes Laertius
#4. Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
Antisthenes
#5. Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
Antisthenes
#6. The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
Tamer Hassan
#7. Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes
#8. The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#9. 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.
Antisthenes
#10. 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.
Antisthenes
#11. When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.
Haruki Murakami
#12. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Antisthenes
#14. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
#15. It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
Antisthenes
#16. As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
Antisthenes
#17. I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
Antisthenes
#18. Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
#19. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes Pinto
#20. How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
Antisthenes
#21. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes
#22. Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
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#24. The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
Antisthenes
#25. Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.
Justin Buzzard
#26. 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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#28. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself, an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes Pinto
#29. I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.
Seth Meyers
#30. States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
Antisthenes
#31. Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.
Antisthenes
#32. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#33. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
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#34. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes
#35. We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Robert Genn
#36. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
#37. The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
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