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- There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Parmenides
- The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- [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
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Education is the best provision for old age.
- 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
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