When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
HERACLITUSThe 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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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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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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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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A man’s character is his fate.
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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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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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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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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 are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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Nothing endures but change.
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