"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."

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

Heraclitus on Detail
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus on Education
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"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

Heraclitus on Expectation
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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

Heraclitus on God
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"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."

Heraclitus on Immortality
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."

Heraclitus on Sleep
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"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

Heraclitus on Bigotry
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"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."

Heraclitus on Bores and Boredom
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"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."

Heraclitus on Burial
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"Change alone is unchanging."

Heraclitus on Change
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"Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

Heraclitus on Change
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"There is nothing permanent except change."

Heraclitus on Change
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"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."

Heraclitus on Change
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on Character
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

Heraclitus on Character
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"Character is our destiny."

Heraclitus on Character
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."

Heraclitus on Danger
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