To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Nothing is constant except change

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.