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4 Athenaeus Quotes

Athenaeus offers witty, slightly sarcastic reflections on food, storms and virtue for anyone who likes clever, everyday philosophy.

Athenaeus quotes

  1. It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

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  2. Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

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  3. Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

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  4. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

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