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• Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pythagoras, vi...
• Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pythagoras, iv...
• Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, xi...
• In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase "Ipse dixit" -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Pythagoras, xxv...
• 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...
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...