When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.