People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

Not I but the world says it: All is one.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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