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• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• 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...
• Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, xiii...
• The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xiii...
• 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...
• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xiii...
• He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• Alcaeus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:-- 'T is money makes the ma
  and he who 's none Is counted neither good nor honourable....