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Virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God; on which account everything owes its existence and consistency to harmony.
Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."
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Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Of a rich man who was niggardly he [Bion] said, That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.
Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
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The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
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The sun, too, shines into cess-pools, and is not polluted.
Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
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When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."
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That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.
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Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
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