Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.

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

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.