15 Apollonius of Tyana Quotes for You to Enjoy

Apollonius of Tyana

Greek Philosopher

Died: 100 AD

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Related authors: Aristotle Diogenes Epictetus Epicurus Heraclitus Plato Plutarch Socrates

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. Apollonius of Tyana

Love Wise Man Anger Wise Man Fault Passion Will Laziness Greed Action Other Once Must Find Prompted Pardoned Drink He Combination Render Himself Understand His Odious Yields Any Impulse Vices Fortify Who

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. Apollonius of Tyana

Wisdom Good Me Power Please Those Seems Sacrifices Gods Them Might Acquire Who Deserve Humans Need

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

Earth Mine Through Over Over It Go Right

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. Apollonius of Tyana

Cause Increase Cares Lighten Since Gluttony Festivals Diseases

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

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging. Apollonius of Tyana

Will Sail Digging Complete Neither See Crossed Having Through Him Praise His Nor Review Achievements

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

You Problems Will Practice Matters Duty Difficult Settle Furnish Solutions Only Know Beforehand Conduct Them Hard Even

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

Nature Learning Practice Thanks Virtue Approval May Deserve

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. Apollonius of Tyana

Wisdom Law Unless City Contains Also Equivalent Subject Stones Theaters Them Useless Such Things Paintings Things

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know. Apollonius of Tyana

Man Fear Coward Superior Philosopher Has-Been Shall Hail Know Him Been Left Account Any Us Teach Who

In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs. Apollonius of Tyana

Man Seen Beast Wild Tyrant Arabia India Crooked Horrible Beasts Armed Heads Know How Been Nor Accomplished Than Which Commonly Many Ever Travels Wider

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings. Apollonius of Tyana

Strings Both Imperial He How Understood His Office May Tune

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black. Apollonius of Tyana

Wealth Better Tears Black Men Consider How Heap Nor Than Gold Which Sand Taxes Who Base Away Nearest Gathered

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