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.
HERACLITUSHide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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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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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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Silence, healing.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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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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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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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Nothing endures but change.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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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.
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