Both Empedocles And Heraclitus Held It For

We Are More Sensible Of What Is Done Against Custom Than Against Nature.

Blinded As They Are To Their True Character By Self-love, Every Man Is His Own First And Chiefest Flatterer, Prepared, Therefore, To Welcome The Flatterer From The Outside, Who Only Comes Confirming The Verdict Of The Flatterer Within.

Antisthenes Says That In A Certain Faraway Land The Cold Is So Intense That Words Freeze As Soon As They Are Uttered, And After Some Time Then Thaw And Become Audible, So That Words Spoken In Winter Go Unheard Until The Next Summer.

Nothing Exists In The Intellect That Has Not First Gone Through The Senses.

The State Of Life Is Most Happy Where Superfluities Are Not Required And Necessities Are Not Wanting.