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• What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own. -- Anacharsis (f1.
  c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher -- Quoted in Stobaeus, Flor., II, 43...
• 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....
• Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Protagoras, iii...
• He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anaxagoras, vi...
• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of word
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Cleobulus, iv...
• That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as daemons.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xlii...
• 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 (c....
• He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...