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.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

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.

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

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

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

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.