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Heraclitus

Heraclitus

Philosopher · Greek

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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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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 way up and the way down are one and the same.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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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.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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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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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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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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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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What are men? Mortal gods. _x000D_ What are gods? Immortal men.
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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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].
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
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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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