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.

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.

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.

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

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

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.

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