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Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 3rd century), was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is one of the principal surviving sources for the history of Greek philosophy
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- 'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'
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- All things are in common among friends.
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- Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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- Blushing is the color of virtue.
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- Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.
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- Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
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- He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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- 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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- I am a citizen of the world.
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- It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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- Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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- Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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- The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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- The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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- Time is the image of eternity.
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- We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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- 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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