Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
Ethos anthropoi daimon – a man’s character is his fate.
The sun is the width of a human foot.
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.
It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.
A fool is excited by every word.
The only thing permanent is change.
Big results require big ambitions.
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
War is the mother of everything.
Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.