"The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony."
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"What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men."
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"The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus."
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"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."
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"Nothing is, everything is becoming."
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"There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]"
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"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."
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"Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears."
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"Everything flows, nothing stays still."
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"No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed."
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"The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living."
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"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."
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"Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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"It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul."
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"The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire."
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"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
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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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"What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher."
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"It is in changing that things find purpose."
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