Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

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

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

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