Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

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

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

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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.