Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
HERACLITUSGood character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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All are one.
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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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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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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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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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