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• Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, xiii...
• Xenophanes speaks thus:-- And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, viii...
• Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii...
• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. -- Xenophane
• Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Menedemus, iii...
• Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• 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...
• The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...