No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
A man’s character is his fate.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
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.
Big results require big ambitions.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
A man’s character is his guardian divinity.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Gabriel