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Diogenes Laërtius
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When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."
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Antisthenes, 4.
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When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."
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Antisthenes, 4.
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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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Antisthenes, 4.
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It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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Theophrastus, 10.
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He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
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Aristotle, 13.
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The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
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Aristotle, 13.
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Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
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Aristotle, 9.
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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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Aristotle, 9.
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The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."
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Aristotle, 9.
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Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
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