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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Heraclitus

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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Agree Couple Disagree Relationship
Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Intelligence Knowledge One Liner
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
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
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Conceal Habit Nature
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Envy Happiness Inspirational Jealousy
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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Air Death Earth Fire Live Philosophy Water
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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Appreciation Disease Enjoyment Health Hunger Inspirational Sweet Tired Want
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
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
How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Deep Experience Hide Situation
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Justice Realize War
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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Conflict Fools God Harmony Man People Poet Woman
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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Awake Forget Ignorance Men
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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Break Up Deep Flow Relationship River Step Water
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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Bright Inspirational Light Principle Thinking

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