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. Wikipedia
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.
„It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.“
§ 3; quoted also by Marcus Aurelius, vii. 36
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) ἀκούσας ποτὲ ὅτι Πλάτων αὐτὸν κακῶς λέγει, “βασιλικόν,” ἔφη, “καλῶς ποιοῦντα κακῶς ἀκούειν.”
„Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) τήν τ᾿ ἀδοξίαν ἀγαθὸν καὶ ἴσον τῷ πόνῳ
„States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Virtue is the same for a man and for a woman.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς ἡ αὐτὴ ἀρετή.
„Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn."“
§ 7
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Original: (el) ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”
„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.
„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
„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
„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
