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.
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.
Any day stands equal to the rest.
It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.
The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change.
Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Things keep their secrets.
A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche… Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water… The psyche lusts to be wet.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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.
