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

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

One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

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.

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.