| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Diogenes Laërtius. (fl. early 3d cent.) (continued) |
| | | 9133 | | On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: “As much,” said he, “as the living are to the dead.” 1 |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9134 | | It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9135 | | He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, “One soul abiding in two bodies.” 2 |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9136 | | Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, “To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.” |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9137 | | The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, “As we should wish our friends to behave to us.” |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9138 | | He used to define justice as “a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved.” |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9139 | | Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age. |
| Aristotle. xi. |
| 9140 | | The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life. |
| Aristotle. xiii. |
| 9141 | | He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies. |
| Aristotle. xiii. |
| 9142 | | It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. 3 |
| Theophrastus. x. |
| 9143 | | Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. |
| Antisthenes. iv. |
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