Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
Diogenes LaertiusPythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
Diogenes LaertiusAristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
Diogenes LaertiusXenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
Diogenes Laertius