3rd century · Skopia

Showing 26 works across all media from the 3rd century

Historical literature

Hope is a waking dream.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 8.1

Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Enneads

270 · 558 pages

Everything pours out of one source Plotinus calls the One, which is beyond words. Mind, soul, and matter follow from it, and a soul can climb back. Christian mysticism was built on this.

★ 7.3

Letter · Religious literature

There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

256

★ 7.3

Historical literature

Do not speak ill of the dead.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 7.2

Treatise · Religious literature

What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

220

★ 7.1

Nonfiction · Biography

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius

225 · 592 pages

Ten books of gossip, wills, deathbed jokes and doctrine, written in the third century and now the main reason we know what Epicurus taught or what Diogenes the Cynic said to Alexander.

★ 6.9

Historical literature

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 5.7

Historical literature

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 4.9

Historical literature

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 4.0

Historical literature

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 3.9

Religious literature

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

251

★ 3.9

Religious literature

Truth does not blush.

Against the Valentinians · 207

★ 3.8

Religious literature

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Ad Scapulam · 217

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 3.8

There is no salvation outside the Church.

Letter to Jubaianus · 256

★ 3.8

Historical literature

Beauty is a gift of God.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.4

Historical literature

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.2

Religious literature

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

On the Flesh of Christ · 206

★ 2.1

Religious literature

It is to believed because it is absurd.

On the Flesh of Christ · 206

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.1

Historical literature

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

Enneads · 270

★ 2.1

Historical literature

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.

Diogenes Laertius

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.0

Historical literature

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.0

Historical literature

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Bion of Borysthenes

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 1.3

Philosophical literature

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Enneads · 270

★ 1.3