Antisthenes famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

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