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

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

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