Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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.
Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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.