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All things flow, nothing abides.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

The path up and down is one and the same.

All entities move and nothing remains still

Things keep their secrets.

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

You will not discover the limits of the soul
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

Asses prefer garbage to gold.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

there is nothing permanent except change--

Change alone is unchanging.

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

Learning many things does not teach understanding

Nothing endures but change.

Any day stands
equal to the rest.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

The seeing have the world in common.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Thinking is common to all.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

Change is the only constant.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

Silence, healing.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything

Latent structure is master of obvious structure

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Everything is in flux.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

War is the father and king of all,

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

The track of writing is straight and crooked.

The only constant in life is change

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

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

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The sun is new each day.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

You can never step in the same river twice.

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.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate.

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