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Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) ...
Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, xiii...
Aristocracy is always cruel. -- Wendell Phillip
ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete
o is that kind of government....
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses.
Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- A...
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, v...
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle...
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than me
although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths....
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3...
Aristotle was all wet!

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