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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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.
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
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.