The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
HERACLITUSTo God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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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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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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