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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with L >> Quotes By Laertius Diogenes |
| Quote #1: | "Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed." |
| Quote #2: | "The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man." |
| Quote #3: | "We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." |
| Quote #4: | "Nothing can be produced out of nothing." |
| Quote #5: | "It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." |
| Quote #6: | "I am a citizen of the world." |
| Quote #7: | "All things are in common among friends." |
| Quote #8: | "'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'" |
| Quote #9: | "Time is the image of eternity." |
| Quote #10: | "He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance." |
| Quote #11: | "He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing." |
| Quote #12: | "Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead." |
| Quote #13: | "Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down." |
| Quote #14: | "When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'" |
| Quote #15: | "The mob is the mother of tyrants." |
| Quote #16: | "Blushing is the color of virtue." |
| Quote #17: | "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." |
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