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

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

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

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

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