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

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

From Apollonius of Tyana

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

From Apollonius of Tyana

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

From Apollonius of Tyana

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

From Apollonius of Tyana

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

From 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.

From Apollonius of Tyana

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

From Apollonius of Tyana

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.

From Apollonius of Tyana

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

From Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana

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