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

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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.

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

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

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.