Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which … - Diogenes Laertius

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It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear. ' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Diogenes Laertius

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

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There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

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There 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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Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

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