
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Source: Elegies, Line 149-150
χρήματα μὲν δαίμων καὶ παγκάκῳ ἀνδρὶ δίδωσιν, Κύρν᾽: ἀρετῆς δ᾽ ὀλίγοις ἀνδράσι μοῖρ᾽ ἕπεται.
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Improvement Era (February 1962) p. 86
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Source: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), p. 95
Page 32.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
“In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.”
Epp. Apoll. 35
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