From Stobæus

This I will say to thee: The lot of fair and pleasant things It behooves to show in public to all the people; But if any adverse calamity sent from heaven befall Men, this it becomes to bury in darkness.

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Pindar said of the physiologists, that they "plucked the unripe fruit of wisdom."

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Pindar said that "hopes were the dreams of those awake."