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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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The only constant is change.
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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Nothing is constant except change.
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For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
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War is the father of all things.
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The only thing constant is change.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
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