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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

Heraclitus

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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exchange Fire Gold Wave
Nature loves to hide.
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Hide Love Nature One Liner
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Detail Inspirational Learning Men Particular World
Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Inspirational Learning Teaching Understand
You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Discover Experience Explore Limitation Soul Travel
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Children King Lifetime Piece Play
The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun
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.
HERACLITUS

Boredom Control Inspirational
It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Change Finding One Liner Purpose
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Justice Realize War
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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Difficult Expectation Hope Life Surprise Unexpected
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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Access Attain Hope Win
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Cosmoc Eternal Fire God
Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Death Immortal Live Mortal
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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Freedom God King Slave War
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Boundary Death Life Soul Travel

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

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