Quotes by Heraclitus

“Change alone is unchanging.”

“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

“Nothing endures but change.”

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

“The sun is new each day.”

“Nature is wont to hide herself.”

“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”

“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”

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