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There is nothing peranent except change.

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Heraclitus
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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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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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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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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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 hard to contend against one's heart's desire for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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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.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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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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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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The fairest harmony springs from discord.
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