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

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

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.

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.

Time is the image of eternity.

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