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• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
  Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance....
• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• Time is the image of eternity. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xli
• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...
• Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
  -- Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C....
• He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any lette
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, xi...
• Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, iv...