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.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Nature loves to hide.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.