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Step out of my sunlight.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.
Man is the most intelligent of animals
and the most silly.
He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.
Time is the image of eternity.
Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: To know one's self.
Whichever you do, you will repent it.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
One day a man invited him into a richly furnished house, saying 'be careful not to spit on the floor.' Diogenes, who needed to spit, spat in his face, exclaiming that it was the only dirty place he could find where spitting was permitted.
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
