There is nothing permanent except change.
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Quotes by Heraclitus
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The sun is new each day.
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.
Big results require big ambitions.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Nothing endures but change.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
A man's character is his fate.
Character is destiny.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Change alone is unchanging.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
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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