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.

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

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

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.