“Those who love wisdom must investigate many things” 

“The sun is new each day.” 

“Silence, healing.” 

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” 

“Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.” 

“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.” 

“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.” 

“All things come into being by conflict of opposites.” 

“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” 

“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.” 

“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.” 

“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” 

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” 

“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.” 

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” 

“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.” 

“History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.” 

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” 

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world” 

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.” 

“Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.” 

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.” 

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.” 

“Nature loves to hide.” 

“A man's character is his fate.” 

“Everything flows and nothing stays.” 

“Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.” 

“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.” 

“there is nothing permanent except change--” 

“Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.” 

“To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.” 

“Dogs bark at what they don't understand.” 

“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” 

“Becau“Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.” 

“Character is destiny.” 

“Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.” 

“Nothing endures but change” 

A fool is excited by every word.”

“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.” 

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.” 

“A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.” 

“Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own” 

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.