Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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.

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.