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 ….

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

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