Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
A man’s character is his fate.
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
It is better to conceal ignorance.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.
What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
Character is destiny.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
The sun is the width of a human foot.
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
It is in changing that we find purpose.
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
The track of writing is straight and crooked.
Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best.
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.
It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.
The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign. The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
