For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

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.

Things keep their secrets.

A man's character is his fate.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.