Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words;[758:5] but opportunity will prevail.
Cleobulus. iv.
The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.[758:6]
Periander. vi.
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."[758:7]
Anarcharsis. v.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
Anarcharsis. v.
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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.