Apollonius Of Tyana Quotes
Apollonius of Tyana was a first-century Greek philosopher and wandering teacher whose life blended Pythagorean discipline with a deep interest in ethics and self-mastery. His surviving words focus on virtue, moderation, and the dangers of greed, delivered with the directness of someone who lived what he preached.
These quotes work well in philosophy discussions, ethics presentations, personal journals, and reflective social media posts. Browse the collection below.
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“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.”
“I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.”
“It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.”
“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.”
“O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.”
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