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. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

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

War is the father and king of all.