“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”

It is in changing that we find purpose.

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.