„Un avaro non può mai essere virtuoso.“
Origine: Citato in G. B. Garassini e Carla Morini, Gemme, classe 5 maschile, Sandron, Milano [post. 1911].
Frasi di Antistene
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Antistene
Data di nascita: 444 a.C.
Data di morte: 365 a.C.
Antistene è stato un filosofo greco antico.
Fu allievo di Gorgia e discepolo di Socrate, forse fondò la scuola cinica, così chiamata perché i cinici si riunivano nel Cinosarge, il ginnasio ateniese dove erano accettati anche i "semi-cittadini" , e per questo i suoi allievi furono chiamati Cinici . Probabilmente fu maestro di Diogene di Sinope ma non si hanno prove certe su ciò.
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Frasi Antistene
„Gli invidiosi sono divorati dal loro proprio carattere come il ferro dalla ruggine.“
Origine: Citato in 2005, VI, 5.
„The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.“
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17
Originale: (el) ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις
§ 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.
„Count all wickedness foreign and alien.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) τὰ πονηρὰ νόμιζε πάντα ξενικά.
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
§ 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.
§ 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.
„Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.“
iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon
„I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.“
§ 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.“
§ 12
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
§ 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.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
