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• Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, vii, 11...
• Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, viii, 19...
• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.
  It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena. -- Athenaeus (c....
• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertai
  have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity....
• 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 does happiness consist. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, liii...
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiv...
• Goodness is the root of all evil.
• The price of greatness is responsibility.