Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
All things are in a state of flux.
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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.
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
Character is our destiny.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished...