He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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.

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

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

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

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