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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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Deliberate Fire Violence
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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Break Up Deep Flow Relationship River Step Water
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Detail Inspirational Learning Men Particular World
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
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Death Life Name Reality
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
Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Death Immortal Live Mortal
There is nothing permanent except change.
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Change Except Inspirational Life One Liner Permanent
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Emotion Fight Life Pleasure
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
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
All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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Act Capacity Men Moderation
Silence, healing.
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One Liner
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
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
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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God Men Philosophy Right Wrong

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