Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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

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 left empty.

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

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