Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Longing performs all things

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.