To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
HERACLITUSAnd 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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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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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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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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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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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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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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