“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”

“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.”

“It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.”

“To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.”

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.”

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”