Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
HERACLITUSThose who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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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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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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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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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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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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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.
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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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Character is destiny.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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All are one.
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