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

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

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

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

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

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Heraclitus: 'No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.'

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Heraclitus: 'Bigotry is the sacred disease.'

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

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

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Heraclitus: 'Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.'

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Heraclitus: 'Nature is wont to hide herself.'

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

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Diogenes: 'The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.'

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Diogenes: 'It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.'

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Diogenes: 'Calumny is only the noise of madmen.'

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Diogenes: 'Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.'

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Diogenes: 'Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.'

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Diogenes: 'Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.'

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Diogenes: 'I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.'

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Diogenes: 'As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.'

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