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61 " We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. "
― Heraclitus
62 " It is in changing that we find purpose. "
63 " Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. "
64 " 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. "
65 " Those who love wisdom must investigate many things "
66 " Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. "
― Heraclitus , Fragments
67 " The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. "
68 " Silence, healing. "
69 " The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds. "
70 " The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing. "
― Heraclitus , Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments
71 " The road up and the road down is one and the same.(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή)—Fragment 60 "
72 " It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. "
73 " Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. "
74 " All things come into being by conflict of opposites. "
75 " ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες (Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.) "
76 " What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men. "
77 " To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting "
78 " If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult. "
79 " The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. "
80 " Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate. "