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

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

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.

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

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.