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• Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, iv...
• 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.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated
  As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead....
• Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xi...
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one's self.
  And what was easy, "To advise another." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...
• Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it.
  Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed....
• Alcaeus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:-- 'T is money makes the ma
  and he who 's none Is counted neither good nor honourable....