Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"—"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."

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

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

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.

That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.

That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.

Time is the image of eternity.

Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.

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