Chilo Advised, "not To Speak Evil Of

It Is The Privilege Of The Gods To Want Nothing, And Of Godlike Men To Want Little.

When Asked What Was The Proper Time For Supper: If You Are A Rich Man, Whenever You Please; And If You Are A Poor Man, Whenever You Can.

When Some One Boasted That At The Pythian Games He Had Vanquished Men, Diogenes Replied, "nay, I Defeat Men, You Defeat Slaves."

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.

Perdiccas Threatened To Put Him To Death Unless He Came To Him, "that's Nothing Wonderful," Diogenes Said, "for A Beetle Or A Tarantula Would Do The Same."