Apollonius Of Tyana said this quote

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

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana