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.

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.