The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUSLifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Nature loves to hide.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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And 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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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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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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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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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Character is destiny.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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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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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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War is the mother of everything.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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