The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

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.

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.

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.

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