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

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

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

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

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.