“It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.”

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”

“Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.”

“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.”

“What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.”

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”

“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.”