Frases de Diógenes Laercio

„Tales decía que no existía diferencia entre la vida y la muerte. «¿Por qué no mueres entonces?», le preguntaron. «Porque no hay diferencia alguna», repuso.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

„Un hombre debe vivir tan cerca de sus superiores como cerca del fuego; ni tan cerca que se queme, ni tan lejos que se hiele.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

„La cultura es un adorno en la prosperidad y un refugio en la adversidad.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 83.

„Callando es como se aprende a oír; oyendo es como se aprende a hablar; y luego, hablando se aprende a callar.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 57.

„Para casarte, cuando joven es temprano y cuando viejo es tarde.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

Fuente: Las mejores citas de provocación / Best provocation sayings: contra todo y contra todos. Coña fina. Autor y editor Samuel Red. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 9788479277802. p. 89.

„Sócrates ensalzaba el ocio como la más bella de las riquezas.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

„La cultura es un saber del que no tiene uno que acordarse… fluye espontáneamente.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y una frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.

„El amor es el pasatiempo de los ociosos.“

—  Diógenes Laercio

„It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Xenophanes, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

„Another was, "Watch your opportunity."“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Pittacus, 7.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

„Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?"“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

"If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
Lacydes, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

„Old age is the harbor of all ills.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Bion, 47.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

„It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Theophrastus, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

„Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Socrates, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

„Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:—
’T is money makes the man; and he who ’s none
Is counted neither good nor honourable.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Thales, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

„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 customs is the unwritten law.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Plato, 51.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

„Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

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

„They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Zeno, 52.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

„Wealth is the sinews of affairs.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius

Bion, 48.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy