Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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

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

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Pythagoras 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.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.