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

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

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.

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

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

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.