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

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?

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

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

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