FRAGMENTS (Circa 500 B.C.)
Heraclitus | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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If happiness consisted in the pleasures of the body, we should call oxen happy whenever they come across bitter vetch to eat.
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The sun is new everyday.
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The one is made up of all things, and all things of the one.
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How can one hide from that which never sets?
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it.
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Knowing not how to listen, they do not know how to speak.
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Those who seek gold dig up much earth and find little.
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Men that love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.
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The learning of many things does not teach understanding.
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The things that can be seen, heard and learned are what I prize the most.
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The way up and the way down is one in the same.
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It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.
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The wisest man, in contrast to God, appears as an ape in beauty and wisdom and all things.
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It is hard to fight one’s heart’s desire. Whatever it wishes to get it purchases at the cost of the soul.
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The fool is fluttered at every word.
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You can not step in the same river twice. For you and the river are constantly changing.
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It is best to hide folly.
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Dogs bark at everyone they do not recognize.
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I dived into myself.
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Recognizing ones self and being of sound mind is for all beings.
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A mans character is his fate.
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Nature love to hide.
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Even a barley-drink separates if it is not stirred.