Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.