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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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It is in changing that things find purpose.
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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Change is the only constant.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
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War is the father and king of all.
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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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A man's character is his fate.
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The path up and down is one and the same.
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