Apollonius Of Tyana Quotes

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
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.
O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
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.
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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.
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
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.
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