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."

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

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

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

All things are in a state of flux.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

A man's character is his fate.