Frases de Diógenes Laercio
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Diógenes Laercio fue un importante historiador griego de filosofía clásica que, se cree, nació en el siglo III d. C., durante el reinado de Alejandro Severo.[1]​ Se le considera un gran doxógrafo, esto es, un autor que, sin una filosofía propia, recoge por escrito la biografía, las vicisitudes, las anécdotas, las opiniones y las teorías de otros, a los que considera ilustres. Wikipedia  

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Frases célebres de Diógenes Laercio

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

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.”

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

“La envidia es causada por ver a otro gozar de lo que deseamos; los celos, por ver a otro poseer lo que quisiéramos poseer nosotros.”

Fuente: Jiménez, Chal. Marca la diferencia: Porque tú lo vales. Editorial ESIC Editorial, 2014. ISBN 9788473566520. p. 157.

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

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

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

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.

Diógenes Laercio: Frases en inglés

“Wealth is the sinews of affairs.”

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

“Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.”

Thales, 14.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."”

Bion, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."”

Socrates, 16.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.”

Socrates, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.”

Periander, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Xenophanes was the first person who asserted… that the soul is a spirit.”

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

“The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.”

Pyrrho, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.”

Plato, 42.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

“Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."”

Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“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, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,—not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.”

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

“When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one’s self." And what was easy, "To advise another."”

Thales, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."”

Antisthenes, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."”

Arcesilaus, 12.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.”

Thales, 13. Compare" "There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life: 'Know thyself', and 'Nothing too much'; and upon these all other precepts depend", Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.”

Actually said by his namesake Diogenes of Sinope, when asked by Alexander the Great if there was anything he wanted.
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", ch. 14, section 4.
Misattributed

“Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.”

Plato, 32.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

“Nothing can be produced out of nothing.”

Diogenes of Apollonia, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.”

Diogenes, 4 (note that this is Diogenes of Sinope).
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies."”

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."”

Solon, 16.
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?"”

"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

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