Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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.

Time is the image of eternity.

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

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

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

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.