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.

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

Character is destiny.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Nothing endures but change.

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.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Big results require big ambitions.

The sun is new each day.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

A man's character is his fate.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

There is nothing permanent except change.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

It is by disease that health is pleasant by evil that good is pleasant by hunger satiety by weariness rest.

All things come out of the one and the one out of all things.

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.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Everything flows and nothing abides everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

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.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.