Every argument is incapable of helping unless it...... "Apollonius of Tyana"の名言

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
— Apollonius of Tyana

タグ: person, reputation, way, love

"Apollonius of Tyana"の他の名言

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

タグ: passion, man, wise, love

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
— Apollonius of Tyana

タグ: opposites, other, judgment, wealth, excellence

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

タグ: through, right, earth, go

I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
— Apollonius of Tyana

タグ: roof, make, partner, me

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

タグ: may, office, how, he