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“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”

Plato, Phaedo

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman. <br class="br">Misattributed

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“To be sure, for he has never learnt to speak well.”

Diogenes Laertius

“O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me.”

Diogenes Laertius

“The man who eats with the greatest appetite has the least need of delicacies.”

Diogenes Laertius

“He who drinks with the greatest appetite is the least inclined to look for a draught which is not at hand.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.”

Diogenes Laertius
Variant: [H]e was nearest to the gods in that he had the fewest wants.

“It is a good thing for a man to offer himself cheerfully to the attacks of the comic writers; for then, if they say anything worth hearing, one will be able to mend; and if they do not, then all they say is unimportant.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Suppose an ass had kicked me, would you have had me bring an action against him?”

Diogenes Laertius

“For actors on the stage, but not for men.”

Diogenes Laertius

“O Euclid, you will acquire a power of managing sophists, but not of governing men.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Did you suppose that so noble a man must be born of two Athenians?”

Diogenes Laertius

“To avoid excess in everything.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Be of good cheer; for if our guests are sensible men, they will bear with us; and if they are not, we need not care about them.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Do you not perceive that you are giving me what is of the greatest value?”

Diogenes Laertius

“And nature has condemned them.”

Diogenes Laertius

“Would you, then, have had me deserve death?”

Diogenes Laertius

“Did I not say that Xanthippe was thundering now, and would soon rain?”

Diogenes Laertius

“But I am used to it, just as I should be if I were always hearing the noise of a pulley; and you yourself endure to hear geese cackling.”

Diogenes Laertius