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• Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• Pittacus said that half was more than the whole. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, ii
• 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...
• Another was, "Watch your opportunity." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, vii
• One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad
  for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger....
• Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xi...
• That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as daemons.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xlii...
• Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, iv...
• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of word
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Cleobulus, iv...