Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods..

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words..

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from cust….

Sacrifice to the Graces..

One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it..

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut..

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue..

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing..

Time is the image of eternity..

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down..

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man..

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world..

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor….

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another..

Whichever you do, you will repent it..

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free..

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place..

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust..

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him..

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them..

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another….