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.
HERACLITUSDeliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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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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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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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 are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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