When he saw Apollonius the philosopher leaving
the city with a multitude of disciples (he was
called away to be tutor to the emperor), Demonax remarked: “There goes Apollonius and his
Argonauts!” Alluding to Apollonius of Rhodes and his poem on the
Argonauts, and implying that this was another quest of the
Golden Fleece. 

 
When a man asked him if lie thought that the
soul was immortal, he said: “Yes, but no more so
than everything else.”