“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”

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.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Character is destiny.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

Nothing endures but change.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man’s character is his fate.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

There is nothing permanent except change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.