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 is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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

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

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.