From Heraclitus: “Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.”
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Quote of the day 11/10/24
From Heraclitus: “To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.”
Quote of the day 11/09/24
From Heraclitus: “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.”
Quote of the day 11/08/24
From Heraclitus: “The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
Quote of the day 11/06/24
From Heraclitus: “The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
Quote of the day 11/05/24
From Heraclitus: “Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Quote of the day 11/04/24
From Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Quote of the day 11/03/24
From Plutarch: “The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.”
Quote of the day 11/02/24
From Plutarch’ “For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.”
Quote of the day 11/01/24
From Plutarch: “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
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