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Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: All Things Best Best Man Common Democracy Even Eye Individual Just Man Monarchy Rule Things Welfare Worth

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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

Topics: Ask Asked Business Discovered Now People Questions Teach

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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

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Topics: Deliver Duty He Himself Instructions Many Persuaded Truth Whose

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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Also Human Knowing Languages Need Secrets Silence Tell Truth Understand Wonder You

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All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

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Topics: Earth Go Mine Over Over It Right Through

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I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Any Ever Feel Friendship Future Kind Literature May Neither Nor Now Other People Philosophers Teachers Towards I Feel

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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

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Topics: Approval Deserve Learning May Nature Practice Thanks Virtue

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I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

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Topics: Anguish Asked Blamed Caused Certain Could Felt How Men Rich Said Them Wealth

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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

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Topics: Creates Does He Himself Honor Many Master Masters Money Person Plato Principle Rejoice Said Virtue

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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.

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Topics: Arts Being Body Diseased Else Godlike Higher Living Living Thing Medicine Most Must Part Said Should Soul Tend Thing Unhealthy Well

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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