Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
HERACLITUSIt is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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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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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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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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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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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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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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