Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within

Heraclitus

Tags: wisdom self-knowledge

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

Heraclitus

Tags: perfection rarity aristocracy

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Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.

Heraclitus

Tags: wisdom truth stupidity

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Any day stands
equal to the rest.

Heraclitus

Tags: present now cycles

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Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.

Heraclitus

Tags: goals dreams fulfillment desires unfulfillment

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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Heraclitus

Tags: inspirational

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Everything flows, nothing stands still.

Heraclitus

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History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Heraclitus

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Nothing endures but change

Heraclitus

Tags: change

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Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.

Heraclitus

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