Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
Time is the image of eternity.
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.