That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

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.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.