HERACLITUS

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.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

Big results require big ambitions.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Change alone is unchanging.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Character is destiny.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.