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

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Bias 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.