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„Народу много, а людей на свете мало.“

„«Ты умираешь безвинно», — говорила Сократу жена; он возразил: «А ты бы хотела, чтобы заслуженно?»“

„Когда ему сказали: «Афиняне осудили тебя на смерть», Сократ ответил: «А природа осудила их самих».“

„Еврипид дал Сократу сочинение Гераклита и спросил его мнение; он ответил: «Что я понял — прекрасно; чего я не понял, наверное, тоже».“

„Такой наш разговор не удивителен —
Всегда себе мы сами очень нравимся
И кажемся красавцами — не так же ли
Осел ослу, свинья свинье и бык быку
И пес другому псу прекрасным кажется?“

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“He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.”

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Источник: О жизни, учениях и изречениях знаменитых философов

Диоген Лаэртский: Цитаты на английском языке

“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”

Pythagoras, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

“Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"—"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."”

Cleobulus, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."”

Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."”

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."”

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.”

Zeno, 19.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

“In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.”

Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.”

Pythagoras, 25.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

“Time is the image of eternity.”

Plato, 42.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”

Plato, 41.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

“Diogenes 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."”

Socrates, 16.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“All things are in common among friends.”

Menedemus, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.”

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“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.”

Epimenides, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."”

Bias, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.”

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

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

Aristotle, 13.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."”

Epicurus, 25.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 10: Epicurus

“Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."”

Chrysippus, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

“Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.”

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

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

Epicurus, 27.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 10: Epicurus

“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.”

Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."”

Solon, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."”

Chilo, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger’s breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.”

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."”

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."”

Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Among 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.”

Pittacus, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.”

Pythagoras, 17.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans