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• He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• 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 used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any lette
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• 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 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...