To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
HERACLITUSIt is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Silence, healing.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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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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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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