Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, 'Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.'.

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.'.

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.

At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake and there was one. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink and presently it sank before his eyes.

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes.

Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.

It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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

He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.

Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, 'Whichever you do, you will repent it.'.

He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Socrates said, 'Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.'.

Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, 'How many things there are which I do not need!'.

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.The saying, 'Practice is everything,' is Periander’s.īook 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers.Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another for that most men were bad.One of his sayings was, 'Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.'.Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, 'Forgiveness is better than revenge.'.Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.Chilo advised, 'not to speak evil of the dead.'.As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, 'Nothing in excess.'.Solon gave the following advice: 'Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.that laws were like cobwebs,-for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions.Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.Compare' 'There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life: 'Know thyself', and 'Nothing too much' and upon these all other precepts depend', Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius. He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one’s self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'.'Why, then,' said some one to him, 'do not you die?' 'Because,' said he, 'it does make no difference.' Thales said there was no difference between life and death.’T is money makes the man and he who ’s none Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:.

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