“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.”

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

War is the mother of everything.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

I’m no longer afraid of conflict, and I don’t think conflict is a bad thing.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.