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

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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

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

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.

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.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.