Although reason is common to all, the many act as if each had a private source of truth.
¶ (Attributed)
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Heraclitus (c.540-c.480 BC) Greek philosopher [also Heracleitus]
It is hard to fight with anger; for what it wants it buys at the price of soul.
¶ (Attributed)
Nothing endures but change.
¶ (Attributed)
in Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius, AD 3rd C), tr. R. D. Hicks, 1925
Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.
¶ (Attributed)
Everything flows, nothing stays still.
¶ Cratylus
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