Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUSThe world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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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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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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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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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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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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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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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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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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Character is destiny.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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