Character is destiny.
HERACLITUSTo 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.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Silence, healing.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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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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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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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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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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