Antisthenes was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates.
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445 BC - 365 BC
Athens, Greece
"Pythagoras was unwilling to profess to be a wise man, but acknowledged himself, "a lover of wisdom." "
"But it so happens that for most vices I have an instinctive abhorrence. Antisthenes* reply to the men who asked him what was the the best training seems to be rooted in this idea; he said it was to unlearn evil. I hold them in abhorrence, I say, from so natural and inborn a conviction that I still retain the same instinctive attitude to them that I imbibed at the breast."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne, p.145
#Quotes"Antisthenes commanded his children never to show gratitude or favor to men who praised them. I feel much prouder of the victory I win over myself when, in the very heats of the battle, I make myself bow to the strength of my adversary'argument, than I feel gratified by a victory gained over him through his weakness. In short, I accept and"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne p.291
#Quotes"Antisthenes one day tried to persuade the Athenians that they should order their asses to be used for tilling the fields, as their horses were; and he was greeted with the answer that this animal was not born for such service. 'That does not matter,' he replied, 'you have only to give the order. The most ignorant and incapable men whom you appoint to a command in your wars immediately and invariably become most worthy of their charge, just because you appoint them.'"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne p.304
#Quotes"Antisthenes said to his disciples: 'Let us go together to hear Socrates. There I shall be a learner like you.' And, in maintaining this doctrine of the Stoic sect, that virtue is enough to make a life completely happy and in need of nothing else, he would add, 'Excepting the strength of Socrates.' This long attention that I g"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne p.359
#Quotes"And it was Socrates' opinion that should a man find himself, his son, and a stranger to be guilty of some violence or wrong, he ought to be first to offer himself for judicial condemnation, and implore for his purgation the help of the killer's hand; then do the same for his son, and lastly for the stranger. Though this precept may take rather too high a tone, a man should at least present himself first to the punishment of his own conscience."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 297
#Quotes"In my opinion it is in a happy life, not, as Antisthenes said, in a happy death, that human felicity consists."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 178
#Disagree"In my opinion it is in a happy life, not, as Antisthenes said, in a happy death, that human felicity consists."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 178
#Disagree