Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.
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Heraclitus
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The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature with an Introduction Historical and Critical
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Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
Character is destiny
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.
One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything
All is flux
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 are one
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
Nothing endures but change.