Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

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.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

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.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

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

A man's character is his fate.