Heraclitus Quotes

Greater fates gain greater rewards

The track of writing is straight and crooked.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become.

Hungry livestock
though in sight of pasture
need the prod

Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters... We are lucky to have them... They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior... and He will bring the others back.

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.

It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

What is not yet known those
blinded by bad faith can never
learn.

People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.

One's bearing
shapes one's fate.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

Ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.

(Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living out the other's death, dying out the other's life)