What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
HERACLITUSApplicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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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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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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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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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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