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