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.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

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.