Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

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

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

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