DLDiogenes Laertius

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Diogenes Laertius

Dates not recorded

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 200 AD

Euripides says,— Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?

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02c. 200 AD

Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?

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03c. 200 AD

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

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04c. 200 AD

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

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05c. 200 AD

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

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06c. 200 AD

Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.

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07c. 200 AD

He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.

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08c. 200 AD

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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