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To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign.
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Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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War is the mother of everything.
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If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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