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• Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiv...
• The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Periander, vi...
• Pittacus said that half was more than the whole. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, ii
• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of word
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Cleobulus, iv...
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Chilo, ii
• Another was, "Watch your opportunity." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, vii
• One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iv...