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

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

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 as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

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