Antisthenes Quotes

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.