Frasi di Antistene

„Un avaro non può mai essere virtuoso.“

—  Antistene

Origine: Citato in G. B. Garassini e Carla Morini, Gemme, classe 5 maschile, Sandron, Milano [post. 1911].

„Stai attento ai nemici, perché essi per primi si accorgono degli errori tuoi.“

—  Antistene

„Possa io diventare pazzo, piuttosto che provare piacere.“

—  Antistene

„Nel lusso possano vivere i figli dei nemici.“

—  Antistene

Origine: Citato in 2005, VI, 8.

„Gli invidiosi sono divorati dal loro proprio carattere come il ferro dalla ruggine.“

—  Antistene

Origine: Citato in 2005, VI, 5.

„È assurdo scegliere il loglio e levarlo via dal grano e fare così anche in guerra con quelli che non servono, e invece nella vita politica non scartare i malvagi.“

—  Antistene

„Count all wickedness foreign and alien.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) τὰ πονηρὰ νόμιζε πάντα ξενικά.

„Once, when he was applauded by rascals, he remarked, "I am horribly afraid I have done something wrong."“

—  Antisthenes

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

„It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) κρεῖττόν ἐστι μετ᾿ ὀλίγων ἀγαθῶν πρὸς ἅπαντας τοὺς κακοὺς ἢ μετὰ πολλῶν κακῶν πρὸς ὀλίγους ἀγαθοὺς μάχεσθαι.

„Antisthenes … used to say that the wise man would regulate his conduct as a citizen, not according to the established laws of the state, but according to the law of virtue.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) τὸν σοφὸν οὐ κατὰ τοὺς κειμένους νόμους πολιτεύσεσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς.

„Antisthenes … said once to a youth from Pontus who was on the point of coming to him to be his pupil, and was asking him what things he wanted, "You want a new book, and a new pen, and a new tablet;" - meaning a new mind.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) πρός τε τὸ Ποντικὸν μειράκιον μέλλον φοιτᾶν αὐτῷ καὶ πυθόμενον τίνων αὐτῷ δεῖ, φησί, “βιβλιαρίου καινοῦ καὶ γραφείου καινοῦ καὶ πινακιδίου καινοῦ,” τὸν νοῦν παρεμφαίνων.

„The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.“

—  Antisthenes

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17
Originale: (el) ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις

„Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.“

—  Antisthenes

iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon

„It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

„I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?“

—  Antisthenes

iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon

„I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) ἔλεγέ τε συνεχές, “μανείην μᾶλλον ἢ ἡσθείην.”

„Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 12
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

„Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn."“

—  Antisthenes

§ 7
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”

„States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.“

—  Antisthenes

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius