The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
HERACLITUSDoctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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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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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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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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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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Good 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.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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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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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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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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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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