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Heraclitus

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Character is destiny.
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom beauty and everything else.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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All things come out of the one and the one out of all things.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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Nothing endures but change.
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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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.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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A man's character is his guardian divinity.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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It is hard to fight against impulsive desire; whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.
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The sun is new each day.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.
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A man's character is his fate.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
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It is by disease that health is pleasant by evil that good is pleasant by hunger satiety by weariness rest.
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The path up and down is one and the same.
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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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One cannot step twice in the same river.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
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Everything flows and nothing abides everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
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Nature is wont to hide herself.
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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All is flux; nothing stays still.
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