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

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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

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

One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.