| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Diogenes Laërtius. (fl. early 3d cent.) (continued) |
| | | 9111 | | He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. |
| Socrates. xiv. |
| 9112 | | He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance. |
| Socrates. xvi. |
| 9113 | | Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, “Whichever you do, you will repent it.” |
| Socrates. xvi. |
| 9114 | | He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live. 1 |
| Socrates. xvi. |
| 9115 | | Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, “Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.” |
| Aristippus. iv. |
| 9116 | | Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world. 2 |
| Aristippus. xiii. |
| 9117 | | Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. |
| Plato. xxxii. |
| 9118 | | Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. |
| Plato. xl. |
| 9119 | | Time is the image of eternity. |
| Plato. xli. |
| 9120 | | That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness. 3 |
| Plato. xlii. |
| 9121 | | That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons. |
| Plato. xlii. |
| 9122 | | 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 custom is the unwritten law. |
| Plato. li. |
| 9123 | | Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, “Sacrifice to the Graces.” 4 |
| Xenocrates. iii. |
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