| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Diogenes Laërtius. (fl. early 3d cent.) (continued) |
| | | 9154 | | When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, “A helmet.” |
| Diogenes. vi. |
| 9155 | | Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, “Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.” 1 |
| Diogenes. vi. |
| 9156 | | When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, “That which belongs to another.” |
| Diogenes. vi. |
| 9157 | | Asked from what country he came, he replied, “I am a citizen of the world.” 2 |
| Diogenes. vi. |
| 9158 | | When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, “The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.” 3 |
| Diogenes. vi. |
| 9159 | | Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, “It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.” |
| Menedemus. iii. |
| 9160 | | When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, “Another I.” 4 |
| Zeno. xix. |
| 9161 | | They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself. |
| Zeno. lii. |
| 9162 | | 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. 5 |
| Zeno. liii. |
| 9163 | | The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. |
| Zeno. lxviii. |
| 9164 | | They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the |
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