John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Diogenes Laërtius. (fl. early 3d cent.) (continued) |
| universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything. |
| Zeno. lxxii. |
| 9165 |
| But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated. |
| Zeno. lxxiv. |
| 9166 |
| Apollodorus says, “If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.” |
| Chrysippus. iii. |
| 9167 |
| One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, “If you have not lost a thing, you have it.” |
| Chrysippus. xi. |
| 9168 |
| 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. |
| Pythagoras. iv. |
| 9169 |
| He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. 1 |
| Pythagoras. vi. |
| 9170 |
| Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart. 2 |
| Pythagoras. xvii. |
| 9171 |
| In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase “Ipse dixit” 3 was introduced into ordinary life. |
| Pythagoras. xxv. |
| 9172 |
| Xenophanes was the first person who asserted… that the soul is a spirit. |
| Xenophanes. iii. |
| 9173 |
| It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. |
| Xenophanes. iii. |
| 9174 |
| Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. |
| Protagoras. iii. |
| Note 1. See Hall, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 2. See Spenser, Quotation 28. [back] |
| Note 3. [greek] (The master said so). [back] |