Greek - Philosopher | 15 AD - 100 AD
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Apollonius of Tyana
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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
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Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
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All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.
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O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.
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If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
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O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
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I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
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I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.
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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
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