Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

War is the father of all things.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.