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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, xiv, 6...
• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.
  It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena. -- Athenaeus (c....
• 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...
• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertai
  have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity....
• Pittacus said that half was more than the whole. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, ii
• Xenophanes speaks thus:-- And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, viii...
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...