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

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

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.

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.

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.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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