The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
The sun is new each day.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
A man's character is his fate.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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.
