Heraclitus on appreciation
“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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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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HeraclitusHeraclitus Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Nature loves to hide.
HeraclitusHeraclitus The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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HeraclitusHeraclitus 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.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
HeraclitusHeraclitus If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
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