A dry soul is wisest and best.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
How can you hide from what never goes away?
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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.