Author
Diogenes Laertius
Biographer of the Greek philosophers. He preserves sayings from the early Stoics that would otherwise be lost.
5 passages
- Wisdom Diogenes of Sinope said that we exchange what is precious for what is cheap, and sometimes the cheap for the precious.
- Wisdom Heraclitus called self-deceit a dreadful sickness, and even sight a sense that can mislead.
- Wisdom When a young man spoke foolishly, Zeno told him: ‘We have two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much…
- Wisdom Zeno also held that nothing obstructs a secure grasp of knowledge more than deceiving oneself.
- Wisdom Zeno said nothing was less fitting than arrogance, especially in the young.