Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
Diogenes LaertiusAnaxagoras 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.
Diogenes LaertiusIt 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.
Diogenes LaertiusThere 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.
Diogenes Laertius