Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.
Diogenes LaertiusAnaxagoras 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.
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 LaertiusOne of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
Diogenes Laertius