Heraclitus Quotes
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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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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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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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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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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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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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.