All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river.
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
A blow to the head will confuse a man’s thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways.
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
The results are in great need greater ambition.
The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
The seeing have the world in common.
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
Nothing is, everything is becoming.