A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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

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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.