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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

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.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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