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

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

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

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

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