The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
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Heraclitus
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About Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by HeraclitusGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
The sun is new each day.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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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.
Nothing endures but change.
Change alone is unchanging.
There is nothing permanent except change.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Change alone is unchanging.