Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge..

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world.".

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess..

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be ….

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

Sacrifice to the Graces..

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

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

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….

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..

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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free..

Whichever you do, you will repent it..

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

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

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..

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

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..

Time is the image of eternity..

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