What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.