Frases de Diógenes Laércio

Diógenes Laércio , historiador e biógrafo dos antigos filósofos gregos. A sua maior obra é Vidas e Doutrinas dos Filósofos Ilustres, composta por dez livros, que contêm relevantes fontes de informações sobre o desenvolvimento da filosofia grega. Wikipedia  

✵ 180 – 240
Diógenes Laércio photo
Diógenes Laércio: 108 citações0 Curtidas

Diógenes Laércio frases e citações

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

Diógenes Laércio: Frases em inglês

“The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Zeno, 68.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Xenophanes, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Socrates, 14.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Another was, "Watch your opportunity."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Pittacus, 7.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Antisthenes, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Pittacus, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

“Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Xenocrates, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Anacharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Aristotle, 13.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

“He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Bion, 50.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Anaxagoras, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Bion, 49.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Plato, 40.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Socrates, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Pyrrho, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Socrates, 16.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Pyrrho, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

“Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Epicurus, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 10: Epicurus

“When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."”

Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“Xenophanes speaks thus:
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.”

Diogenes Laërtius

Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics