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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul. - [Soul] Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. - [Knowledge : Wisdom] All is flux, nothing stays still. - [Change] Although it is better to hide our ignorance, this is hard to do when we relax over wine. - [Ignorance : Wine and Spirits] Character is destiny. - [Character] Character is fate. (Destiny) - in Mullach's "Fragmenta Philosophurum Groecorum" [Destiny] Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. - [Doctors] Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears. - [Witness] God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want. - [God] If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult. - [Expectation] Man is not made for defeat. - [Defeat] Man is on earth as in an egg. - [Man] Much learning does not teach understanding. - [Learning] No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - [Change] Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. - [Stupidity] The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods. - [Humanity] The most perfect mind is a dry light. [Lat., Lumen siccum optima anima.] - the "obscure saying", quoted by Bacon, who explains it as a mind not "steeped and infused in the humors of the affections" [Mind] The people should fight for the law as for their city wall. - [Law] The Sibyl, speaking with inspired mouth, sends her voice to remotest ages. - [Apothegms] The waking have one and the same world, the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own. - found in Burnet's "Early Greek Philosophy" [Thought] The way up and the way down are one and the same. - [Success] To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. - [Boredom] We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire. - [Fire] You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. - [Change] Everything flows and nothing stays. - Cratylus (402a) [Change] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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