Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

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

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

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.

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

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.