The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Another of his sayings, was that most men were within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

that when in the course of his life he beheld pilots, and physicians, and philosophers, he thought man the wisest of all animals; but when again he beheld interpreters of dreams, and soothsayers, and those who listened to them, and men puffed up with glory or riches, then he thought that there was not a more foolish animal than man.”

hard enough to drive me away as long as you continue to speak.”

“Strike, for you will not find any stick