Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

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

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.