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.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

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

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.