Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
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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 blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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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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Character is our destiny.
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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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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.
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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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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.
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It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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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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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.