It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
HERACLITUSTis not too late to seek a newer world.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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Nothing endures but change.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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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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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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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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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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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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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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