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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...
• Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii...
• When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please
  and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii
• 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...
• Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anaxagoras, vi...
• Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, xiii...