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

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

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

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.