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Quotes by Heraclitus

“Greater dooms win greater destinies.”

“Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.”

“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.”

“Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”

“The sun is new each day.”

“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”

“Change alone is unchanging.”

“Mans character is his fate.”

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”

“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and hes not the same man.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

All are one

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

All is flux