Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

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