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Diogenes Laertios – filozof i historyk starożytny, autor dzieła Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów .

Czas jego życia ustala się na pierwszą połowę III w., miejsce pochodzenia jest nieznane, istnieją domysły, że było to miasto Laertes w Cylicji. Opisuje żywoty i poglądy filozofów greckich od Talesa i siedmiu mędrców do Epikura włącznie. Jego dzieło jest ważnym źródłem wiedzy o filozofach, których pisma nie zachowały się do naszych czasów. Wikipedia  

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Diogenes Laertios cytaty

„Powiadają niektórzy, że filozofia narodziła się u ludów barbarzyńskich. Jako dowód przytaczają perskich magów, babilońskich czy asyryjskich Chaldejczyków, indyjskich gymnosofistów, oraz celtyckich i galickich druidów i semnoteów (…). Ale nie zdają sobie sprawy z tego, że przypisują barbarzyńcom osiągnięcia będące osiągnięciami Greków i że od Greków zaczyna się nie tylko filozofia, ale w ogóle rodzaj ludzki.”

Diogenes Laertios

Źródło: Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów

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Diogenes Laertios: Cytaty po angielsku

“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."”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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."”

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

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Aristippus, 13.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers