Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

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

You can never step in the same river twice.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.