Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Wisdom
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Business
Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables."
— Diogenes Laërtius
Philosophy
Time is the image of eternity.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Philosophy
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.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Philosophy
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Business
The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Philosophy
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Business