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

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

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.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

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