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• Time is the image of eternity. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xli
• Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man.
  On which account this addition was made to the definition,--"With broad at nails....
• Fortune is unstable, while our will is free. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Epicurus, xxvii
• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xl...
• They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lii...
• The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friend
  and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us....
• When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Plato, xxxii...
• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates, iii...