The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
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.
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
All things are in a state of flux.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
The only thing constant is change
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.
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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