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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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For those who are awake there is one common universe.
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It is hard to fight against impulse; whatever it wants it buys at the expense of soul.
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The fairest cosmos is as a rubbish heap piled up haphazardly.
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One must know that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things happen by strife and necessity.
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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If one does not expect the unexpected one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficult to compass.
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The greatest virtue is to be prudent, and wisdom is to speak the truth and with understanding to act according to nature.
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Unite whole and part, agreement and disagreement, accordant and discordant; from all comes one, and from one all.
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To god all things are beautiful and good and just, but people have supposed some to be unjust, others just.
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe.
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
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Everything flows and nothing stays…You can't step twice into the same river.
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Having come to birth they want to live and have their fates, and they leave children behind to become their fates.
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Disease makes health pleasant and good, as does hunger satiety and weariness rest.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
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He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Born:
535 BC
Died:
475 BC
(aged 60)
Bio:
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage.
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The cosmic fragments
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
Fragments
The Fragments of Heraclitus
Heraclitus: Homeric Problems
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