Anaxagoras 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.
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
Whichever you do, you will repent it.
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.