Apollonius of Tyana Quotes

Greek - Philosopher | 15 AD - 100 AD

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

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Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

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It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

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It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

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I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

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Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.

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Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

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Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

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The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

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Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

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