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
„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 … 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.
„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
„Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.“
iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon
„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
„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.”
„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
„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.”
„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
„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
