It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
HERACLITUSOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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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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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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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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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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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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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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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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War is the mother of everything.
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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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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All are one.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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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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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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