Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUSStupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Character is destiny.
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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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The sun is new each day.
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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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Change alone is unchanging.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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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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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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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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