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• He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, v...
• Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, x...
• Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xi...
• Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy
  he could go there with his eyes shut. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...