01c. 200 ADOnce he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
02c. 200 ADWhen asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
03c. 200 ADAsked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
04c. 200 ADWhen a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
05c. 200 ADDiogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
06c. 200 ADWhen Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
07c. 200 ADThey say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
08c. 200 ADOne ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
09c. 200 ADThe Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
10c. 200 ADThey also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
11c. 200 ADBut Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
12c. 200 ADApollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
13c. 200 ADOne of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
14c. 200 ADPythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
16c. 200 ADAmong what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
17c. 200 ADIn the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase "Ipse dixit" was introduced into ordinary life.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
18c. 200 ADXenophanes was the first person who asserted . . . that the soul is a spirit.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
20c. 200 ADProtagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
22c. 200 ADXenophanes speaks thus:— And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
24c. 200 ADDemocritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."Diogenes Laertius / quote ↗
