Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

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

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.