"Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap."

"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."

"The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other."

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

"Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.""

"He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live."

"Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.""

"He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance."

"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."

"Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.""

"Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!""

"Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason."

"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist."

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

"They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything."

"But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated."

"Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.""

"One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.""

"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."

"He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin."

"Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart."

"In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life."

"Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit."

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."

"Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other."

"Nothing can be produced out of nothing."

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

"… zographian poiesin sioposan prosagoreuei, ten de poiesin zographian lalousan."

"… ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει [sc. ὁ Σιμωνίδης], τὴν δὲ ποίησιν ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν."

"We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge."

"Anankei d' oude theoi makhontai."

"ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται."

"Here lies Megistias, who died When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide. A great seer, yet he scorned to save Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave."

"[Word-for-word translation] O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient."

"Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tē(i)de keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi."

"ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. (wrongly attributed)"