Nothing endures but change.
HERACLITUSThe nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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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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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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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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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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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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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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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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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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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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The sun is new each day.
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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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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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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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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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