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

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

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

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.

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.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.