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Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Apollonius of Tyana

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.

Apollonius of Tyana

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius of Tyana

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

Apollonius of Tyana

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

Apollonius of Tyana

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

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

Apollonius of Tyana

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

Apollonius of Tyana

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

Apollonius of Tyana

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Apollonius of Tyana

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

Apollonius of Tyana

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Apollonius of Tyana

In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.

Apollonius of Tyana

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

Apollonius of Tyana

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

Apollonius of Tyana

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

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

Apollonius of Tyana