If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
Diogenes LaertiusThales 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.
Diogenes LaertiusBias 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.
Diogenes LaertiusHeraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
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