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"25 Heraclitus Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 540 BCE. Died: 480 | Philosopher |

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Same River Step Twice
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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Ears Exact Eyes More
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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.

Character Created Day Develop
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Always Envy Happiness Lasts
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Does Learning Much Teach
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Agree Couples Discordant Things
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Carry Chain Heavy Sometimes
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Big results require big ambitions.
Ambition Big Require Results
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Better Harmony Hidden Obvious
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Achieves Child Himself Man
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Brings Concord Discord Fairest
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The sun is new each day.
Day Each New Sun
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Collaborators Even Goes Universe
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Danger Does Encounters Also
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Expect Find Reached Search
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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.

Over Again Boredom Control
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Assistance Greek Libraries Little
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There is nothing permanent except change.
Change Except Nothing Permanent
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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.

Against Contend Cost Desire
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Beautiful Everything God Good
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Best Cattle Eternal Fame
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Ears Eyes People Poor
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

About Details Know Learn
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Day God Hunger Night
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Evening Hide Ignorance Our
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Heraclitus Quotes & Sayings