Diogenes Laertius Quotes

#1. Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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#2. Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Louis I. Kahn

#3. Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.

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#4. When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

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#5. The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

Winston Graham

#6. His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Mark it. No challenges, no success!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?

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#9. The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

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#10. Any day I'm vertical is a good day.

B.J. Gallagher

#11. Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: To know one's self.

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#12. A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.

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#13. I can see what you're up to."
"Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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#15. Time is the image of eternity.

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#16. One day a man invited him into a richly furnished house, saying 'be careful not to spit on the floor.' Diogenes, who needed to spit, spat in his face, exclaiming that it was the only dirty place he could find where spitting was permitted.

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#17. We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

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#18. Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

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#19. We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

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#20. As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

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#21. Memories bring with them a devil called melancholy - oh, cruel demon that I cannot escape. Hearing

Paulo Coelho

#22. You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper

#23. It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.

Steve Maraboli

#24. 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.

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#25. Stand a little less between me and the sun. Diogenes and I.

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#26. Every boss started as a worker.

Rick Ross

#27. Step out of my sunlight.

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#28. The tired ox treads with a firmer step

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#29. Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while ... It destroys before negotiations!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

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#31. One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

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#32. If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

Dale Carnegie

#33. Whichever you do, you will repent it.

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#34. Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?

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#35. It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

Tim LaHaye

#36. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Henrik Ibsen

#37. The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect.

M.F. Moonzajer

#38. 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.

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#39. When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

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#40. Man is the most intelligent of animals
and the most silly.

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#41. He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.

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#42. Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

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