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.’
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
Nothing is constant except change.
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.