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.

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.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

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

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