Heraclitus Quotes and Life Lessons You Should Know Before You Get Old | Hundred Quotes

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. There is nothing permanent except change. You cannot step into the same river twice. 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. If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. Character is destiny. A man's character is his fate. Big results require big ambitions. Nothing endures but change. The way up and the way down are one and the same. Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. 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. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. You could not step twice into the same rivers, for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. A man's character is his guardian divinity. The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals, but most people stuff themselves like cattle. I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom, it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees. The concordant is discordant, from all things one and from one all things. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe. To liberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. Nature is wont to hide herself. To God everything is beautiful, good and just. Humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is done.