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• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xl...
• Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Plato, xxxii...
• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates, iii...
• That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as daemons.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xlii...
• That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xlii...
• In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase "Ipse dixit" -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Pythagoras, xxv...
• Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi
• Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man.
  On which account this addition was made to the definition,--"With broad at nails....
• He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xiii...