If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
HERACLITUSKnowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Character is destiny.
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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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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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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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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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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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Silence, healing.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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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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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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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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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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