Héraclite d'Éphèse citations

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“C'est la maladie qui rend agréable et bonne la santé, la faim la satiété, la fatigue le repos.”

“Chaque jour est comme tout autre jour.”

“Le plus beau des singes est laid.”

“Le plus beau ciel n’est qu’une sorte de balayure de choses répandues n’importe comment.”

“Ce n'est pas la quantité de connaissances qui enrichit l'esprit.”

“Il est dans les mœurs d'un sot de s'extasier à toute parole.”

“L'oracle ne révèle ni ne cache mais signifie. La nature aime à se cacher.”

“On ne peut pas descendre deux fois dans le même fleuve.”

“Il faut éteindre la démesure plus qu'un incendie.”

“Ce qui est taillé en sens contraire s'assemble; de ce qui diffère naît la plus belle harmonie; tout devient par discorde.”

“The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.”

“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”

“All entities move and nothing remains still.”

“Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.”

“Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.”

“The road up and the road down is one and the same.”

“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”

“All human laws are nourished by one divine law.”

“Character is destiny.”

“Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters… We are lucky to have them… They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior… and He will bring the others back.”

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

“Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.”

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

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”