FridayDec 01, 2023
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
The most perfect mind is a dry light.
Character is destiny.
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong.
To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
Change alone is unchanging.
Nothing endures but change.
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
A mans character is his fate.
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
A dry soul is wisest and best.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in, other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
This world ... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out.
Where there is no strife there is decay: The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.
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