Heraclitus Quotes
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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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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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
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May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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Character is our destiny.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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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.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
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The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.