"Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."
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"Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things."
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"All things come into being by conflict of opposites."
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"Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services."
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"There is nothing permanent in the world except change."
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"Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'"
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"You cannot step twice into the same river."
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"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets"
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"Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things."
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"Life is a child moving counters in a game."
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"Everything changes and nothing stands still."
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"The only constant is change."
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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
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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."
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"All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation."
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"The only constant in life is change"
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"To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate."
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"Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed."
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"Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do."
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"Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain."
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