Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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.
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.
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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.
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.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
All things are in a state of flux.
The only thing constant is change
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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.
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.
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].
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.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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