Virtue is a weapon no one can take from you.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6
Virtue is a weapon no one can take from you.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6
The source
"Virtue is a weapon no one can take from you." Antisthenes said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"Virtue is a weapon of which a man cannot be deprived"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Antisthenes (c. 446–366 BC). Student of Socrates and forerunner of the Cynics.
Questions
- Who said "Virtue is a weapon no one can take from you."?
- Antisthenes (c. 446–366 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6.
- What is the original wording?
- Virtue is a weapon of which a man cannot be deprived (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
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