Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
Diogenes LaertiusXenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
Diogenes LaertiusWhen Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
Diogenes LaertiusHeraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
Diogenes LaertiusThere are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
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