Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

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

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.