“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

“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.”