What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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.
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
What are men? Mortal gods. _x000D_ What are gods? Immortal men.
You can never step in the same river twice.
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
There is nothing permanent except change.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
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