Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

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

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.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

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.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

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