To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
HERACLITUSIt is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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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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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Character is destiny.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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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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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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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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The sun is new each day.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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