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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

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.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

All things flow, nothing abides.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

All things are in a state of flux.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

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

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

A man's character is his fate.

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

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Change alone is unchanging.

Change is the only constant.

Character is fate. (Destiny).

Character is our destiny.

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

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

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

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

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

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

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.

Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.

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

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

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

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

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.