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• 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...
• 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...
• Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?
  If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?" -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Lacydes, v...
• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, xiv, 6...
• On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated
  As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead....
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, xiii...
• A friend of mine made some very light and exceedingly dry white wine.
  He invited me to taste it, and it not only lacked color and body, but taste....
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...