Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

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