To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
HERACLITUSA man’s character is his fate.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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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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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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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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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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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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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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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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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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All are one.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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