That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Plato, xlii
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Plato, xlii
Related:
- That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are
such beings as daemons.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato,... - Time is the image of eternity.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c.
200 AD) -- Plato,... - Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies
successively.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato,... - Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.
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Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato,... - Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."
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Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates,... - The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle,... - One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced
by fear or hope,
or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that... - He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that
which each person deserved."
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Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle,... - Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage,
my boy! that is the complexion of virtue." -- Diogenes...
