I leave you the best phrases of Heraclitus (540 BC-480 BC), pre-Socratic philosopher from Ephesus, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor. Also known as The Dark One of Epheus, his philosophy focused on constant change and transformation of everything.
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-There is nothing permanent except change.
-The Sun is new every day.
-No man can step on the same river twice, because it is never the same river and it is never the same man.
-Wisdom is speaking the truth and acting after it.
-The character of a man is his destiny.
-We are more ourselves when we assume the seriousness with which the child plays.
-If you don't expect the unexpected, you will never find it.
-The men who want to know about the world must learn from it in detail.
-Great results require great ambitions.
-Nothing resists except change.
-A lot of learning does not teach understanding.
-Time is a game played very well by children.
-Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for people if they have uneducated souls.
-How can you hide from what never disappears?
-Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
-The abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
-Thought is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
-The people must fight for their law, as well as for their wall.
-Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. It takes patient effort to develop good character.
-Everyone has the possibility of being wise, but his contemporaries live like sleepers.
-God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger.
-The awakened men have only one world but the sleeping men each have their own world.
-Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
-All human laws are fed by divine law.
-It is not good to hide your own ignorance, but to discover it and remedy it.
-Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
-Those looking for gold dig a lot of earth and find little.
-You have to follow what is common, but although logos is common, most men live as if they had private wisdom.
-Those who sleep are workers and artisans of what happens in the kosmos.
-It is necessary to know that war is common and justice is discord, and that everything happens according to discord and necessity.
-Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
-God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, abundance and hunger.
-Let's not randomly conjecture about the most important issues.
-Every man is allowed to know himself and meditate wisely.
-It is necessary for philosophers to find out about many things.
-Men try to purify themselves by staining themselves with blood. It is as if, after being stained with mud, they want to clean themselves with mud.
-The waters that cover those who enter the same river are different.
-You will not find the confines of the soul not even traveling all the roads; such is its depth.
-The opposite agrees, and the most beautiful harmony is formed from the discordant, and everything is engendered by discord.
-The disease makes health good and pleasant, hunger to satiety, work to rest.
-This cosmos, which is the same for all, has not been made by any of the gods or men, but has always been, is and will be an eternal and living fire that lights up and goes out according to measure.
-It is prudent to listen to the Logos, not to me, and to recognize that all things are one.
-Wise is the goal of the human soul and, as it advances in its knowledge, it in turn moves away the horizon of the unknown.
-Don't make people laugh to the point of giving cause for laughter.
-Because without collision forces there are no movements and there is no reality.
-The doctors cut, burn, torture. And by doing the sick a good, which seems more bad, they demand a reward that they hardly deserve.
-The way of being human does not involve judgment; the divine does carry it.
-War is the father and king of all things.
-Even a soul immersed in a deep sleep works hard and helps to make something in the world.
-Of every hundred men, ten should not even be there, eight are only cannon fodder, nine are the real fighters and we are fortunate to have them, because they will fight; ah, but one, one is a warrior; and he will bring the others back.
-It is difficult to contain the desire of the heart, since whatever the price, it pays with pieces of the soul.
-Doing the same thing over and over and over again is not just boredom, it is being controlled by what you do instead of controlling what you do.
-How can you hide from what never leaves?
-In the change we find the purpose.
-Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that pertain to your principles and bring the light of day.
-The most beautiful harmonies are born from differences.
-All things flow, and that flow is subject to a unifying current or rational principle.
-Logos, the harmony hidden behind all the changes.
-The content of your character is your choice.
-Day after day, what you choose, what you think and what you do, is what you become.
-Without injustice, the word justice would mean what?
-What are men? Mortal gods.
-The way up and the way down are the same.
-Having everything you want is not good. Diseases make health taste better.