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• Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, ix...
• Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirate
  and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"--"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known....
• He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• 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...
• He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any lette
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• 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...
• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...