Character is our destiny.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

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.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.