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.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

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.

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.

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.