1. “Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,—not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.”
2. “Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.”
3. “As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
4. “Bury me on my face,” said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, “Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.”
5. “Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, “I am looking for a man.””
6. “Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.”
7. “Euripides says,—Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?”
8. “It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.”
9. “It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
10. "Know thyself," was counted as one of the oracles of the Greeks. It was inscribed as one of their three great precepts, in letters of gold, on the temple at Delphos, and regarded as divine."
11. “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.”
12. “Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;… that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.”
13. “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.””
14. "The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
15. “Time is the image of eternity.”
16. “When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “To know one’s self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.””
17. “Xenophanes speaks thus:—And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.”
