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• Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy
  he could go there with his eyes shut. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Menedemus, iii...
• The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• 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 Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirate
  and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"--"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known....
• It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii
• Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcaeus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iii...
• 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 Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anaxagoras, vi...