Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
HERACLITUSOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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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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Change alone is unchanging.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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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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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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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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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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