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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, xiv, 6...
• Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, viii, 19...
• When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, vii, 11...
• When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• 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...
• Euripides says,-- Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, viii...
• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.
  It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena. -- Athenaeus (c....