The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

War is the father and king of all.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

A man's character is his fate.

Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.