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

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

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.

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

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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