Antisthenes: Doing

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“Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.”

Antisthenes

iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon

Lie , Soul , Personality , Wealth

“I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?”

Antisthenes

iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon

Hunger , Drink , Clothes

“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”

Antisthenes

§ 3; quoted also by Marcus Aurelius, vii. 36
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius