History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
HERACLITUSIt is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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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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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Nature loves to hide.
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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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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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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All are one.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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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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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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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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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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