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

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

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.

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.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.