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.
HERACLITUSApplicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Nature loves to hide.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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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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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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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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