I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Character is our destiny.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

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