"Time is the image of eternity."
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"Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words."
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"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."
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"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
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"Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
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"Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry."
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"The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides."
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"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."
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"Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively."
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"Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."
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"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."
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"Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will."
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"The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough."
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"But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated."
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"Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
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"Pittacus said that half was more than the whole."
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"Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."
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"Whichever you do, you will repent it."
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"Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."
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"If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true."
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