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.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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.

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

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.

Time is the image of eternity.