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- [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.
- Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Physics
- We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- Evil draws men together.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), First Olynthiac
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
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