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.
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
Time is the image of eternity.
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?