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• He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pythagoras, vi...
• 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...
• 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....
• He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Epicurus, xxv...
• Time is the image of eternity. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xli
• Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Theophrastus, x...
• All things are in common among friends. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• Nothing can be produced out of nothing. -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Diogenes of Apollonia, ii...