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"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way."
"The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."
"There is nothing permanent except change."
"Big results require big ambitions."
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
"Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season."
"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."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
"Change alone is unchanging."
"Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds."
"What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity."
"Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings."
"Day by day, what you do is who you become."
"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."
"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."
"We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations."
"Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep."
"A man's character is his fate."
"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one."
"Those who love wisdom must investigate many things"