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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

Heraclitus

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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Break Up Deep Flow Relationship River Step Water
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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Army Battle Fighter Lucky Men Target Warrior
War is the mother of everything.
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One Liner War
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Emotion Fight Life Pleasure
The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun
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.
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Character Choice Color Principle Soul Thought
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Awake Deep Private Share Sleep World
Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Action Change Choice Fashion Person Personality
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Detail Inspirational Learning Men Particular World
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Desire Life Live Philosophy Satisfaction World
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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Difficult Expectation Hope Life Surprise Unexpected
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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Done Inquiry Knowledge Wisdom
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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Guide Mind Positive Wisdom
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Cosmoc Eternal Fire God
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Divine Knowledge Lost
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Disease One Liner Scare

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

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