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b. 100 Greece
Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15 – c. 100 AD) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor.
Also known as: Apollonius
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I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.
Ram Swarup (2000)
To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.
Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
All wish to live in the nearness of God, but only the Hindus bring it to pass.
You must shun barbarians and not govern them since, barbarians as they are, it is not right that they should receive a benefit.
In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.
The natural philosopher Heraclitus said that man is naturally irrational. If this is true, as it is true, then everyone who enjoys futile glory should hide his face.
If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.
Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.
Approve and pursue the kind that is in accordance with nature. But avoid the kind that claims to be inspired: people like that about tell lies about Gods, and urge us to do many foolish things.
to Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000)
You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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