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• 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...
• Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Fortune is unstable, while our will is free. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Epicurus, xxvii
• It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Theophrastus, x...
• Time is the image of eternity. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xli
• Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
  Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance....
• 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....