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• He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any lette
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...
• Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time
  and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one anothe...
• He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• 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...
• When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, xix...