The best Quotes by Diogenes Laertios

The best Quotes by Diogenes Laertios

Diogenes Laërtius (3rd century AD) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek philosophy.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Talking Hearing & Listening Ohren

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

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Happiness Humility

Quotes about Diogenes Laertios

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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Character Solitude & Loneliness

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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Teachers Fathers

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

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Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

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'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

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Thinking Talking

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

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Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Talking Hearing & Listening

In most cases the best advice that can be given is just listening.

Hearing & Listening

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Johannes Kepler

Mind & Apprehension Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Being Silent Talking Ohren Mouth

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

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Wine has its uses... like revealing someone's true colors, for example.

Rosaria in Genshin Impact

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

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That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Happiness Revenge

I don't consider myself to be the best... and I don't like compliments... they distract me.

Jimi Hendrix

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Humility Talent Compliments

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

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Humility Shyness

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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Happiness Present

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness Minutes

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

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Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Snow Winter Coldness

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

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