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

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

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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