There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

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

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