"The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious."
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"It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest."
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"How can you hide from what never goes away?"
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"Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth."
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"The way up and the way down are one and the same."
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"The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have."
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"The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished."
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"Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer."
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"Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity."
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"Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign"
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"Knowing many things doesn't teach insight."
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"The only thing that is constant is change."
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"Greater dooms win greater destinies."
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"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
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"I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before"
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"The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man."
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"Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child."
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"Things keep their secrets."
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