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.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

You can never step in the same river twice.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.