Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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

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

Time is the image of eternity.

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.

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

Whichever you do, you will repent it.