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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Firsts Quotes

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.

A man’s character is his fate.

Fate Quotes

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Virtue Quotes

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.

Water Quotes

War is the mother of everything.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.

For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

The death of fire is the birth of air, and the death of air is the birth of water. For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul. Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moistened. And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old; the former are shifted and become the latter, and the latter in turn are shifted and become the former.

Not comprehending, they hear like the deaf. The saying is their witness: absent while present.

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

War is the father of all and the king of all; it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

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

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The unseen harmony is better than the visible.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

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

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

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

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

The beginning is the end.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary.

What is divine escapes men’s notice because of their incredulity.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

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

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random.

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