Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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

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.

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

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

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

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.