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.

The only constant is change.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

The sun is new each day.

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.