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41 " The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her. "
― Heraclitus
42 " Many fail to grasp what they have seen,and cannot judge what they have learned,although they tell themselves they know. "
― Heraclitus , Fragments
43 " Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water. "
44 " The road up and the road down is one and the same "
45 " What was scatteredgathers.What was gatheredblows away. "
46 " Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child. "
47 " 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. "
48 " Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. "
49 " Everything changes and nothing stands still. "
50 " Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει(All is flux, and nothing abides) "
51 " To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul. "
52 " I went in search of myself. "
53 " Without injustices,the name of justicewould mean what? "
54 " Under the combthe tangle and the straight pathare the same. "
55 " The living, though they yearnfor consummation of their fate,need rest, and in their turn leavechildren to fulfil their doom. "
56 " Introite, nam et heic Dii sunt! (Enter, for here too are gods.) "
57 " The sun is the width of a human foot. "
58 " The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change - "
59 " 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 do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. "
60 " Man's character is his fate. "