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Heraclitus

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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Character Creation Life Patient
A man’s character is his fate.
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Character Fate Inspirational Man One Liner
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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Claim Defend Opinion Reputation Understand
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Children King Lifetime Piece Play
Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Discover Experience Insight Life
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Cattle Eternal Fame Goals Mortal People
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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Difficult Expectation Hope Life Surprise Unexpected
It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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Buy Cost Desire Hard Heart Soul
You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Discover Experience Explore Limitation Soul Travel
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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Chnage Endurance Future Inspirational
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
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Freedom God King Slave War
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Emotion Fight Life Pleasure
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Cosmoc Eternal Fire God
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.
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Army Battle Fighter Lucky Men Target Warrior
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Envy Happiness Inspirational Jealousy

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