If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

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

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

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.