38 Quotes by Apollonius of Tyana

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

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

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

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

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.

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.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

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

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.