A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus

A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions.
Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus

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

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

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus

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


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

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

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus

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

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

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus

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

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Heraclitus