No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Heraclitus
Same, Twice, Ever, Experience
Big results require big ambitions.
- Heraclitus
Results, Big, Require, Ambition
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
- Heraclitus
Eyes, Poor, Souls, Ears
The sun is new each day.
- Heraclitus
Morning, Sun, New, Each Day
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
- Heraclitus
Wedding, Sometimes, Chain, Wedlock
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
- Heraclitus
Harmony, Opposition, Brings, Concord
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
- Heraclitus
Best, Goal, Like, Mortals
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
- Heraclitus
More, Fit, Than, Corpses
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
- Heraclitus
Ignorance, Will, Hide, Wine
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.
- Heraclitus
Patience, Good Character, Formed
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
- Heraclitus
More, Ears, Than, Exact
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
- Heraclitus
Couples, Things, Discordant, All Things
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
- Heraclitus
Character, Divinity, His, Guardian
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
- Heraclitus
Prosperity, Encounters, Does, Encounter
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
- Heraclitus
Play, Himself, Most, Seriousness
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus
Rivers, Waters, Ever, Flowing
Nature is wont to hide herself.
- Heraclitus
Nature, Hide, Wont, Herself
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
- Heraclitus
Search, Trail, Expect, Reached
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
- Heraclitus
Greek, Made, Libraries, Poets
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
- Heraclitus
Peace, Night, Winter, Hunger
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
- Heraclitus
Wish, World, Learn, Particular
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
- Heraclitus
Desire, Cost, Buys, Wishes
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change, Nothing, Endures
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
- Heraclitus
Universe, Goes, Even, Workers
You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
Brainy, Same, Twice, River
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
- Heraclitus
Justice, Will, False, Overtake
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
- Heraclitus
Think, Some, However, Humans
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
- Heraclitus
More, Than, Quenched, Violence
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Change, Nothing, Except, Permanent
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
- Heraclitus
Harmony, Better, Hidden, Obvious
Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus
Understanding, Teach, Does, Much
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.
- Heraclitus
Boredom, Over, Same, Controlled
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
- Heraclitus
Disease, Sacred
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- Heraclitus
Envy, Always, Longer, Lasts
A man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus
Character, Man, His, Fate
Character is destiny.
- Heraclitus
Character, Destiny
Change alone is unchanging.
- Heraclitus
Change, Alone, Unchanging
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