Apollonius of Tyana
Quotes by Apollonius of Tyana
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As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
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I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
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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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I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
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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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