“Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.” OpinionExpressionHabitAgreePeculiar 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
“But 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.” WorldReasonCausesFateAll ThingsConnected Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Apollodorus 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.” IfsBookWould BeLeftPaperEmptyPassages Author:Diogenes Laertius
“Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.” KnowsMenSpeak 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
“As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.” Excess Author:Diogenes Laertius
“There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.” WellsSaidStoriesWould BeEyeThreeWaterSeeingWindWalkingFairsDrinkingShipsHis EyesSailingEarthquakesMarvellousAnother TimeSeashore Author:Diogenes Laertius
“There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.” LawCitiesWrittenConstitutionAriseCustomsUnwritten Author:Diogenes Laertius