Everything flows and nothing stays still.
The sun is new each day.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Big results require big ambitions.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
A man's character is his fate.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.