“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.” UsedValuesGreatest LoveMany FriendsOne FriendGreat Value Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.” IfsMenLongUsedHateOughtBiasShort TimeLove One AnotherFuture Time Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Pythagoras 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.” SoulUsedAnimalPlantPassingPassingsPerpetualMercury Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.” UsedCausesWaterAirAll ThingsInfinitePrimariesDefining Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.” WayEyeUsedEasyHis EyesShade Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.” PeopleUsedIronDispositionEnviousRust Author:Diogenes Laertius
“It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.” MenMadeTogetherUsedCommonOughtAccountsSakeUsed To Be Author:Diogenes Laertius