It is in changing that things find purpose.

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

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own