The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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.

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.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

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.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.