Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

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.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.