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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.

Heraclitus

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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Burn Demand Deserve Doctor Fee Service Sick Torture
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
HERACLITUS

Claim Defend Opinion Reputation Understand
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Judgment Steer True Wisdom
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Philosophy Road Same
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
HERACLITUS

Awake Forget Ignorance Men
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.
HERACLITUS

Army Battle Fighter Lucky Men Target Warrior
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
HERACLITUS

Atheist Cosmic Creation God Man Process Universe
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
HERACLITUS

False Justice Lie Witness
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
HERACLITUS

Justice Realize War
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
HERACLITUS

Awake Forget Ignorance Men
Silence, healing.
HERACLITUS

One Liner
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.
HERACLITUS

Character Creation Life Patient
History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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Build Children History Majesty Man Power Sea World
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Investigation Love Wisdom
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Anger Difficult Fight Man Revenge Soul
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Desire Life Live Philosophy Satisfaction World

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