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.
HERACLITUSThe road up and the road down is one and the same.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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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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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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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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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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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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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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