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«One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.»
«Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; - that laws were like cobwebs, -for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off»
«The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
| About:
Wine
| Keywords:
disgust, grapes, intoxication, vine
«I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.»
«The great thieves lead away the little thief»
«No man is hurt but by himself»
«Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one»
«Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?»
«I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.»
«It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.»
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