Frases de Antístenes
Antístenes
Data de nascimento: 444 a.C.
Data de falecimento: 365 a.C.
Antístenes foi um filósofo grego considerado o fundador da filosofia cínica, aprendeu retórica com Górgias antes de se tornar um discípulo de Sócrates.Era filho de um ateniense com uma escrava trácia, por isso, não tinha nem o título nem o direito de cidadão ateniense. Nenhuma de suas obras sobreviveu, e de sua produção restaram apenas fragmentos.
Citações Antístenes
„A gratidão é a memória do coração.“
Antístenes, citado em "Frases Geniais" - página 103 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=5nd6l6KXWvgC&pg=PA103, Paulo Buchsbaum, Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335, 440 páginas
„A riqueza e a pobreza das pessoas encontram-se não em seus bens imóveis, mas em seus corações.“
Fonte: Xenofonte, Simpósio, 4.34 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0212%3Atext%3DSym.%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D34
„Count all wickedness foreign and alien.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) τὰ πονηρὰ νόμιζε πάντα ξενικά.
„Once, when he was applauded by rascals, he remarked, "I am horribly afraid I have done something wrong."“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) προσέχειν τοῖς ἐχθροῖς· πρῶτοι γὰρ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων αἰσθάνονται.
„Antisthenes … used to say that the wise man would regulate his conduct as a citizen, not according to the established laws of the state, but according to the law of virtue.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) τὸν σοφὸν οὐ κατὰ τοὺς κειμένους νόμους πολιτεύσεσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς.
„When he was asked what advantage had accrued to him from philosophy, his answer was, “The ability to hold converse with myself.”“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) ἐρωτηθεὶς τί αὐτῷ περιγέγονεν ἐκ φιλοσοφίας, ἔφη, “τὸ δύνασθαι ἑαυτῷ ὁμιλεῖν.”
„I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.“
§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) ἔλεγέ τε συνεχές, “μανείην μᾶλλον ἢ ἡσθείην.”
„Antisthenes … said once to a youth from Pontus who was on the point of coming to him to be his pupil, and was asking him what things he wanted, "You want a new book, and a new pen, and a new tablet;" - meaning a new mind.“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) πρός τε τὸ Ποντικὸν μειράκιον μέλλον φοιτᾶν αὐτῷ καὶ πυθόμενον τίνων αὐτῷ δεῖ, φησί, “βιβλιαρίου καινοῦ καὶ γραφείου καινοῦ καὶ πινακιδίου καινοῦ,” τὸν νοῦν παρεμφαίνων.
„The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.“
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17
Original: (el) ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις
„As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) κρεῖττόν ἐστι μετ᾿ ὀλίγων ἀγαθῶν πρὸς ἅπαντας τοὺς κακοὺς ἢ μετὰ πολλῶν κακῶν πρὸς ὀλίγους ἀγαθοὺς μάχεσθαι.
„Antisthenes … was asked on one occasion what learning was the most necessary, and he replied, "To unlearn one's bad habits."“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.“
iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon
„Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.“
§ 12
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
