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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.


Heraclitus

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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HERACLITUS Big results require big ambitions.
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HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men ha...
HERACLITUS Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
HERACLITUS Time is a game played beautifully by children.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
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HERACLITUS Change alone is unchanging.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change.
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HERACLITUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
HERACLITUS The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
HERACLITUS It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
HERACLITUS Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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HERACLITUS Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change.
HERACLITUS You cannot step into the same river twice.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys a...
HERACLITUS Character is destiny.
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HERACLITUS The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
HERACLITUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS The sun is new each day.
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HERACLITUS To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than ...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same...
HERACLITUS The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themse...
HERACLITUS I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek an...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
HERACLITUS Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
HERACLITUS Man's character is his fate.
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HERACLITUS You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUS All is flux, nothing stays still.
HERACLITUS Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all thing...
HERACLITUS Everything flows; nothing remains.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
HERACLITUS To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
i...
HERACLITUS Greater dooms win greater destinies.
HERACLITUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and diffi...
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ...
HERACLITUS Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
HERACLITUS It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going...
HERACLITUS Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
HERACLITUS People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
HERACLITUS Character is destiny
HERACLITUS Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
HERACLITUS Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
HERACLITUS Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, a...
HERACLITUS All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This princi...
HERACLITUS Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
HERACLITUS War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other...
HERACLITUS Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.
HERACLITUS Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
HERACLITUS Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
HERACLITUS One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything
HERACLITUS Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.
HERACLITUS Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
HERACLITUS Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
HERACLITUS Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
HERACLITUS All is flux
HERACLITUS Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
aft...
HERACLITUS Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
HERACLITUS Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are b...
HERACLITUS Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
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(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
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who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
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HERACLITUS Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears
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