To be even minded is the greatest virtue.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

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.

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

Character is destiny.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Nothing endures but change.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

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

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.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Everything flows, nothing stands still.

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.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

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

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.