Heraclitus Quotes
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Nature loves to hide.

Character is Destiny.

Nothing endures but change.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.

Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that a man becomes ruled by them.

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Our sense of fatal habits of reasoning, paralyze us, we need the impulse of the pure ideal.

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

It is hard to fight against impulsive desire; whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find 'truth,' for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of the soul.

Even the Sun will not overstep his measures; if he does, the Erinyes or the Fates, the minions of Justice, will find him out.