As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

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

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

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

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.

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