Complete Works Quotes

“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works

“He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works

“They reject dialectic as superfluous; holding that in their inquiries the physicists should be content to employ the ordinary terms for things.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works

“And further, let the regularity of their orbits be explained in the same way as certain ordinary incidents within our own experience; the divine nature must not on any account be adduced to explain this, but must be kept free from the task and in perfect bliss.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works