Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Character is our destiny.

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Change alone is unchanging.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Man's character is his fate.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Nothing endures but change.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.