Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

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

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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.

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