Character is destiny.
HERACLITUSWhat are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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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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Nothing endures but change.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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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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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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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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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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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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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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