Author: Apollonius of Tyana

Quotes

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.

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

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

- Apollonius of Tyana

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.

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.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Apollonius of Tyana

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

- Apollonius of Tyana

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