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.
HERACLITUSWe are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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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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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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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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A man’s character is his fate.
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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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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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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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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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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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