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Cleanthes Quotes on Knowledge

Cleanthes of Assos was a Greek Stoic philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as head of the Stoa around 262 BC. This page collects quotes attributed to Cleanthes on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • “Todo saldrá en la colada.”

    All will come out in the washing. | Miguel de Cervantes , Don Quixote (1605-1615), I, 20.
  • “All will come out in the washing.”

    Todo saldrá en la colada.
  • “Miguel de Cervantes , Don Quixote (1605-1615), I, 20.”

    Todo saldrá en la colada.
  • “Haidakhan Babaji , The Teachings of Babaji , 20 April 1983.”

    (…) you should look to the areas of your countries where people are poverty-stricken and helpless and then do all you can to raise their standard of living, teaching them cleanliness and high morals. To serve the needy truly and from the heart is true service to God.
  • “Will Durant , Our Oriental Heritage”

    Cleanliness was literally next to godliness in India; hygiene was not, as Anatole France thought it, la seule morale, but it was made an essential part of piety. Manu laid down, many centuries ago, an exacting code of physical refinement. “Early in the morning,” one instruction reads, “let him” (the Brahman) “bathe, decorate his body, clean his teeth, apply collyrium to his eyes, and worship the g
  • “Alan Moore, Swamp Thing #40 The Curse”

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  • “William Shakespeare , Henry IV , Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 4, line 168.”

    I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly.