As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is – so that he neither seek it nor flee it. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
