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

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

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

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.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

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

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.