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.
HERACLITUSThere 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.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Character is destiny.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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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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Nothing endures but change.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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A man’s character is his fate.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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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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