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

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

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.

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.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.