There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.