"Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care."

“The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices.”

“Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.”

“Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them.”

“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

“Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother.”

“Diogenes, on being sold as a slave at Corinth, was asked by the auctioneer what he could do. "Rule men," he replied. "Do you suppose," asked the other, "that people want to buy masters?”