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Heraclitus
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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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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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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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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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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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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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
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It is wise to agree that all things are one.
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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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May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
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War is the mother of everything.
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
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