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- There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- All is flux, nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Nature is wont to hide herself.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- The road up and the road down is one and the same.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- A man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
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