Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

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.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.