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.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
Where there is no strife there is decay: ‘The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.’