Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

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

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

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.