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

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

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.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

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

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.