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• All things are in common among friends. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of word
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Cleobulus, iv...
• Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xi...
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boethus say, that all things are produced by fate.
  And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated....
• Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,--not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anaximander, ii...
• Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, x...
• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates, iii...
• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
  -- Samuel Madden (1687-1765) -- Boulter's Monume...