Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

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.

I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before