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Heraclitus [-544--483] Greek

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom.

Change, Alone, Brainy, Experience, God, Good, Happiness, Learning, Men, Morning, Nature, Patience, Peace, Wedding

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is nothing permanent except change.	Change	97
The sun is new each day.	Morning	101
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.	Experience	102
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.	Good, Patience	103
Big results require big ambitions.		104
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.		105
You cannot step into the same river twice.	Brainy	106
Nothing endures but change.	Change	108
Character is destiny.		109
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.	Happiness	110
Much learning does not teach understanding.	Learning	111
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.		112
Nature is wont to hide herself.	Nature	113
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.		114
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.		115
Change alone is unchanging.	Alone, Change	116
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.		117
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.	God	118
A man's character is his fate.		119
The way up and the way down are one and the same.		120
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.	Men	121
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.		122
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.		123
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.		124
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.	Wedding	125
Bigotry is the sacred disease.		126
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.		201
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.		202
A man's character is his guardian divinity.		203
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.		204
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.		205
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.	Peace	206
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.		207
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.		208
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.		209
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.		210
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.		211
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.		212

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