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.
HERACLITUSDay by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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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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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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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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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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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.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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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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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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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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