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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Heraclitus

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.
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Character Choice Color Principle Soul Thought
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Alcohol Evening Ignorance Reveal Wine
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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Awake Forget Ignorance Men
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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Agree Couple Disagree Relationship
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Inspirational Late One Liner Seek World
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Accurate Ears Eyes Truth Witness
War is the mother of everything.
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One Liner War
It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Change Finding One Liner Purpose
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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Conflict Fools God Harmony Man People Poet Woman
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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Disease Noble Religion
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Connection Hide Life Relationship
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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Freedom God King Slave War
You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Discover Experience Explore Limitation Soul Travel
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Philosophy Road Same
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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exchange Fire Gold Wave
The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun

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