Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUSKnowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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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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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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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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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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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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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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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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