Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.


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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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The sun is new each day.
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Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Everything flows; nothing remains.
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There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Without injustices,
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People ought to fight
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as to defend the citys walls.
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Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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aft...
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Stupidity is doomed,
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at every syllable
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Everything rests by changing.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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A man's character is his guardian divinity.
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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all thi...
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
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You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.
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Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears
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Character is destiny.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living
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The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself
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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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