To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
HERACLITUSThe world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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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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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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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 Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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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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A man’s character is his fate.
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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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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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