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

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

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

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.