And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

The belly has no ears.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.