Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

Time is the image of eternity.

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.