Frasi di Antistene
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.
Frasi Antistene
„Un avaro non può mai essere virtuoso.“
Origine: Citato in G. B. Garassini e Carla Morini, Gemme, classe 5 maschile, Sandron, Milano [post. 1911].
„Gli invidiosi sono divorati dal loro proprio carattere come il ferro dalla ruggine.“
Origine: Citato in 2005, VI, 5.
„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.
„Once, when he was applauded by rascals, he remarked, "I am horribly afraid I have done something wrong."“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) τήν τ᾿ ἀδοξίαν ἀγαθὸν καὶ ἴσον τῷ πόνῳ
„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
„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.“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Virtue is the same for a man and for a woman.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς ἡ αὐτὴ ἀρετή.
„Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn."“
§ 7
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Originale: (el) ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”
„It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.“
§ 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.
„As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.“
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Antisthenes … was asked on one occasion what learning was the most necessary, and he replied, "To unlearn one's bad habits."“
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
„Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.“
iv. 34
From Symposium by Xenophon
