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• One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iv...
• Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, iv...
• Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
  -- 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...
• Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land." -- 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...
• Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time
  and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one anothe...
• 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...