Heraclitus

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

Any day stands equal to the rest.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Nature loves to hide.

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.