Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Pyrrho. viii.

The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.[766:2]

Pyrrho. ix.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Pyrrho. xi.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Pyrrho. xi.

Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.

Epicurus. vi.

He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.