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title: Cynic Maxims and Sayings
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Monimus of Syracuse
eul_wid: fpu-aa
eul_aid: fpu
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/monimus-syracuse-maxims-sayings-fpu-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: "Attic (phi, frg)"
domain: Philosophy
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Cynic Maxims and Sayings

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Monimus of Syracuse

**eul_wid:** `fpu-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/monimus-syracuse-maxims-sayings-fpu-aa)

## Text

### 1

Τὸν πλοῦτον εἶπε τύχης ἔμετον εἶναι.

### 2

Μόνιμος ὁ Κυνικὸς φιλόσοφος ἔφη κρεῖττον εἶναι τυφλὸν ἢ ἀπαίδευτον· τὸν μὲν γὰρ εἰς τὸν βόθρον, τὸν δ’ εἰς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμπίπτειν.

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