No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
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.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Big results require big ambitions.
A man's character is his fate.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Nothing endures but change.
Character is destiny.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
The sun is new each day.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Change alone is unchanging.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
