Frases de Diógenes Laercio página 4

“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.”

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.”

“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.”

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.”

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

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.

“El amor es el pasatiempo de los ociosos.”

“Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables."”

Diógenes Laercio: Frases en inglés

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

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

“Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”

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

“He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.”

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

“But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.”

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

“When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."”

Zeno, 74.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

“On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."”

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

“Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

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

“Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.”

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