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• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

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  Children, Kingdoms, Eternity

  "Refutation of all heresies, Book IX (Fragment 52)". Book by Hippolytus of Rome (3rd century AD), as later translated in Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal "Reality" (p. 10), 1994.

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• Character is our destiny.

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  Character, Destiny, Our Destiny

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• Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

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  Science, Sight, Hearing

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• The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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  People, Goal, Stuff

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• 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.

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  Fire, Gold, All Things

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

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  Rivers, Flux, All Things

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• Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Heard, Knows

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.8, Philaletheians UK

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

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  Men, Order, Evil

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

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  Inspirational, Wine, Ignorance

  "Fragments (Fragment 109)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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

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  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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

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  Giving, Oracles, Lord

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• Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

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  People, Encounters, Spirituality

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

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  Change, Flux, Endure

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

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  Life, Way, Unforeseen

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.20, Penguin

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• A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

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  Home, Son, Men

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• Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

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  Believe, Belief, Divine

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• Life is a child moving counters in a game.

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  Children, Moving, Games

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• The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

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  Years, Voice, Mouths

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• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

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  Work, Toiling, Weariness

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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Sea

  "Contemporary Literature in Translation". Issues 23-32 (p. 21), 1976.

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• Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

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  Death, Fit, Burial

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• The only thing constant is change

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  Good Life, Constant

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• The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Humanity, Immortal

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• Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

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  Rivers, Water, Flow

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• You can never step in the same river twice.

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  Rivers, Steps

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