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• One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Chrysippus, xi...
• But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boethus 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....
• 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...
• Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcaeus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iii...
• Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Protagoras, iii...
• Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy
  he could go there with his eyes shut. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad
  for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger....
• There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law
  hat which arises from custom is the unwritten law....