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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Inspirational Life
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
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Indeed Love Men Wisdom
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
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Army Battle Fighter Lucky Men Target Warrior
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
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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Conflict Fools God Harmony Man People Poet Woman
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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Build Children History Majesty Man Power Sea World
A man’s character is his fate.
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Character Fate Inspirational Man One Liner
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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Boredom Control Inspirational
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
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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Awake Common Dreams Men World
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Come Conflict Opposite Philosophy
Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Destiny Motivational One Liner
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Achievement Children Ourselves Play Serious
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Cattle Eternal Fame Goals Mortal People

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