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

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

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

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Time is the image of eternity.