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.

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

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

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.

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.