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

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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

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.

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.