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

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War, Justice, Passing Away

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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

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Fire, Violence, Deliberate

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Nothing is constant except change

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Constant

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

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Life, Philosophy, Sleep

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.69, Penguin

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Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

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Rivers, Water, Flow

"Fragments (Fragment 12)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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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.

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Men, World, Common

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

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Doe, Unexpected, Unexplored

Heraclitus (1981). “The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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You cannot step into the same river twice.

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Inspirational, Change, Philosophical

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.97, Penguin

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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

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Change, Nature, Travel

"Cratylus". Dialogue by Plato, 1826.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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Encounters, Doe, Prosperity

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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

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Science, Discovery, Unexpected

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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

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Inspirational, World, Common

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

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Caught, Left Behind, Behinds

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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

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Thinking, Sight, Disease

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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

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Men, Firsts, Rate

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The results are in great need greater ambition.

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Ambition, Needs, Results

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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.

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Thinking, Doe, Unexpected

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The only thing that is constant is change.

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Constant

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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

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Children, Moving, Games

"The Art and Thought of Heraclitus". Book by Charles H. Kahn, 1979.

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Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

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Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

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

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Men, Wish, Details

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

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Men, All Things, Fairs

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

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Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.5, Philaletheians UK

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

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Nature

"Fragments (Fragment 123)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

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Wisdom, Philosophical, Men

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Born: 535 BC
Died: 475 BC
Occupation: Philosopher
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