Antisthenes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”
-- Antisthenes

#Truth #Life Lesson #Healing

“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
-- Antisthenes

#Kind #Unlearn

“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
-- Antisthenes

#Love #Friendship #Dream

“How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.”
-- Antisthenes

#Unlearn

“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.”
-- Antisthenes

#Inspirational #Enemy #Firsts

“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”
-- Antisthenes

#Clarity #Investigation #Communicate

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
-- Antisthenes

#Strong #Brother #Common

“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”
-- Antisthenes

#Royal #Privilege #Ill

“We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.”
-- Antisthenes

#Weed #War #Men

“It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .”
-- Antisthenes

#Fall #Crow #Alive

“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”
-- Antisthenes

#Men #Good Man #States

“As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.”
-- Antisthenes

#Men #Iron #Envy

“Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.”
-- Antisthenes

#Doe #Royalty

“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”
-- Antisthenes

#Mad #Pleasure #Feels

“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.”
-- Antisthenes

#Life #Fall #Crow

“The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.”
-- Antisthenes

#Philosophy #Able #Advantage

“To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.”
-- Antisthenes

#Lying #Soul #Opulence

“We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.”
-- Antisthenes

#Running #Teaching #Mad

“Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.”
-- Antisthenes

#Happiness #Lying #Men

“I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.”
-- Antisthenes

#Wicked #Done

“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.”
-- Antisthenes

#Marriage #Arise #Quarrels

“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
-- Antisthenes

#Business #Powerful #Mistake

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
-- Antisthenes

#Anger #Passion #Iron

“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.”
-- Antisthenes

#Learning #Evil #Unlearn