It is a collection of
apophthegm s from classical antiquity . Many classical
apophthegms repeated ideas of Socrates , Plato , and Alexander
Kaynak: Apophthegmatum opuspleading; but in Greek he affected the brevity of the
apophthegm and the Spartan, of which he sometimes gives a striking example in his letters."
Kaynak: Marcus Junius Brutus (Rome character)To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous
apophthegm of
Kaynak: Friedrich Christian Diez"This
apophthegm was adapted from a famous hadith in which the Prophet Muhammad is have reported to have said:" "Seek knowledge from the
Kaynak: Islamic College of Brisbane