Quotes by Diogenes Lartius

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3rd-century Roman biographer of Greek philosophers · Greek

3rd-century Roman biographer of Greek philosophers

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“Step out of my sunlight.”

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”

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“Step out of my sunlight.”

— Diogenes Lartius

philosophy

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

— Diogenes Lartius

philosophy virtue

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”

— Diogenes Lartius

awake dreams

“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.”

— Diogenes Lartius

agnosticism atheism belief existence

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

— Diogenes Lartius

time

“He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.”

— Diogenes Lartius

contenders contest greeks irony

“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”

— Diogenes Lartius

anacharsis drunkenness grape pleasure

“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”

— Diogenes Lartius

listening paraphrased