Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
HERACLITUSLife has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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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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Big results require big ambitions.
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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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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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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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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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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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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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