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Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

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“Domandò dunque Apollonio se conoscessero anche sé stessi: ritenendo che pure lui [Iarca], come i Greci, considerasse cosa difficile il conoscere sé stesso. Ma egli, smentendo la previsione di Apollonio, rispose: «Noi conosciamo tutto appunto perché, prima di ogni altra cosa, conosciamo noi stessi: infatti nessuno di noi potrebbe accedere a questa sapienza, senza conoscere prima sé stesso». E Apollonio, ricordando ciò che aveva sentito da Fraote e come gli aspiranti alla filosofia iniziassero mettendo alla prova sé stessi, si trovò d'accordo con questo discorso: tanto più che si era convinto di ciò pure grazie alla propria esperienza.”

Lucio Flavio Filostrato libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

III, 18; p. 154
Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

“Eusseno comprese che [Apollonio di Tiana] s'impegnava in un nobile proposito, e gli chiese da che punto avrebbe cominciato; ed egli rispose: «Dove cominciano i medici: purificando il ventre, essi ad alcuni prevengono le malattie, e altri conducono a guarigione». Dopo tali parole si astenne dal cibarsi di carne, dicendo che era impura e appesantiva la mente; e si nutriva di frutta secca e di verdure, sostenendo che è puro tutto ciò che la terra produce direttamente. Affermava inoltre che il vino è sì una bevanda pura in quanto proviene agli uomini da una pianta coltivata, ma che si oppone all'equilibrio della mente poiché turba l'etere che è nell'anima.
Dopo avere in tal modo purificato il ventre, scelse di non portare calzatura alcuna, e si vestì di un abito di lino rifiutando le vesti fatte con pelli d'animale; si lasciò crescere la chioma, e viveva nel tempio.”

Lucio Flavio Filostrato libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

I, 8; p. 67
Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

“Apollonio […] espose il motivo per cui praticava la sapienza: affermava di praticarla per conoscere gli dèi e per convivere con gli uomini, in quanto conoscere gli altri è più difficile che conoscere sé stessi.”

Lucio Flavio Filostrato libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

IV, 44; p. 217
Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

“Volendo una volta cacciare le fiere nelle riserve dove i barbari tengono leoni, orsi e pantere, il re chiese ad Apollonio di unirsi alla caccia; ma egli rispose: «Ti dimentichi, o re, che non assisto neppure ai tuoi sacrifici? Tanto più che non è un piacere tendere insidie ad animali torturati e resi schiavi contro la loro natura.»”

Lucio Flavio Filostrato libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

I, 37; p. 98
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“"What induces you, he [] said, "Apollonius, to dress yourself differently from everybody else, and to wear this peculiar and singular garb?" "Because," said Apollonius, "the earth which feeds me also clothes me, and I do not like to bother the poor animals."”

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Philostratus libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

Book 8, § 5.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“One day the king was going to hunt the animals in the parks in which the barbarians keep lions and bears and leopards, and he asked Apollonius to accompany him on the chase, but the latter replied: "You have forgotten, O king, that I never attend you, even when you are sacrificing. And moreover, it is no pleasure to me to attack animals that have been ill-treated and enslaved in violation of their nature."”

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Philostratus libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

Book 1, § 37.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“The votaries of Pythagoras of Samos have this story to tell of him, that he was not an Ionian at all, but that, once on a time in Troy, he had been Euphorbus, and that he had come to life after death, but had died as the songs of Homer relate. And they say that he declined to wear apparel made from dead animal products and, to guard his purity, abstained from all flesh diet, and from the offering of animals in sacrifice. For that he would not stain the altars with blood; nay, rather the honey-cake and frankincense and the hymn of praise, these they say were the offerings made to the Gods by this man, who realized that they welcome such tribute more than they do the hecatombs note and the knife laid upon the sacrificial basket.”

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Book 1, § 1.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.”

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Philostratus

XXV. Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 801-03.
Letters

“Apollonius accordingly paused for a minute and then, fixing his eyes, as it were, on the discourse he had heard, he spoke as follows: "… I am not come here to ask your advice about how to live, insomuch as I long ago made choice of the life which seemed best to myself … For I discerned a certain sublimity in the discipline of Pythagoras, and how a certain secret wisdom enabled him to know, not only who he was himself, but also who he had been; and I saw that he approached the altars in purity, and suffered not his belly to be polluted by partaking of the flesh of animals and that he kept his body pure of all garments woven of dead animal refuse; and that he was the first of mankind to restrain his tongue, inventing a discipline of silence … I also saw that his philosophical system was in other respects oracular and true. So I ran to embrace his teachings …"”

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Book 6, § 11.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me.”

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Philostratus

XXIV. Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 801-03.
Letters

“Apollonius then asked him [Iarchas] whether they knew themselves also, thinking that he, like the Greeks, would regard self-knowledge as a difficult matter. But the other, contrary to Apollonius' expectations, corrected him and said: "We know everything, just because we begin by knowing ourselves; for no one of us would be admitted to this philosophy unless he first knew himself." And Apollonius remembered what he had heard Phraotes say, and how he who would become a philosopher must examine himself before he undertakes the task; and he therefore acquiesced in this answer, for he was convinced of its truth in his own case also.”

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Book 3, § 18.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“Now Euxenus realized that he was attached to a lofty ideal, and asked him at what point he would begin it. Apollonius answered: "At the point at which physicians begin, for they, by purging the bowels of their patients prevent some from being ill at all, and heal others." And having said this he declined to live upon a flesh diet, on the ground that it was unclean, and also that it made the mind gross; so he partook only of dried fruits and vegetables, for he said that all the fruits of the earth are clean. And of wine he said that it was a clean drink because it is yielded to men by so well-domesticated a plant as the vine; but he declared that it endangered the mental balance and system and darkened, as with mud, the ether which is in the soul. After then having thus purged his interior, he took to walking without shoes by way of adornment and clad himself in linen raiment, declining to wear any animal product.”

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Philostratus libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

Book 1, § 8.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

“Apollonius … explained his motive in practicing wisdom, declaring that the sole use he had made of it was to gain knowledge of the gods and an understanding of human affairs, for that the difficulty of knowing another man exceeded that of knowing oneself.”

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Philostratus libro Vita di Apollonio di Tiana

Book 4, § 44.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana

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