Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

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

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.