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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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.

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

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

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

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