100+ Heraclitus Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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Burn Demand Deserve Doctor Fee Service Sick Torture
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Boundary Death Life Soul Travel
Change alone is unchanging.
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Alone Change Inspirational One Liner
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 sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun
All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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Act Capacity Men Moderation
What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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God Immortal Men
Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Inspirational Learning Teaching Understand
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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Character Creation Life Patient
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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Claim Defend Opinion Reputation Understand
Nature loves to hide.
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Hide Love Nature One Liner
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Beautiful Difference Harmony Join Process Result Togetherness
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Achievement Children Ourselves Play Serious
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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exchange Fire Gold Wave
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Death Life Name Reality
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
Character is destiny.
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Character Destiny One Liner
Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Discover Experience Insight Life
Nothing endures but change.
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Change Endurance Life One Liner
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Danger Encounter Prosperity
A man’s character is his fate.
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Character Fate Inspirational Man One Liner
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Investigation Love Wisdom
Man is on earth as in an egg.
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Earth Egg Man
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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Freedom God King Slave War
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Indeed Love Men Wisdom
How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Deep Experience Hide Situation
There is nothing permanent except change.
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Change Except Inspirational Life One Liner Permanent

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