Laertius Diogenes quotes
"He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing."
"Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead."
"Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down."
"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'"
"The mob is the mother of tyrants."
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless t"
