Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

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

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

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.