Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.

Into the same rivers we step and do not step, we are and are not.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

The many are mean; only the few are noble.

Greater fates gain greater rewards.

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.