It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
The only thing constant is change
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one