Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

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

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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.

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

One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.