A man’s character is his fate.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
The path of writing is crooked and straight.
Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
A fool is excited by every word.
History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
Silence, healing.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Big results require big ambitions.
Latent structure is master of obvious structure.
The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
Nothing endures but change.
Thinking is a sacred disease, and sight is deceptive.
How can you hide from what never goes away?
Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.
Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Let us not make random conjectures about the greatest matters.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.
Thinking is common to all.
A man’s character is his guardian divinity.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
Uncelebrated life is like a long innless road.
Change alone is unchanging.
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things,
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Change is the only constant in life.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
