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.
HERACLITUSAll men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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War is the mother of everything.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Character is destiny.
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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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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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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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