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Heraclitus (; Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος, romanized: Hērákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.

Quotes from Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

time perception change

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Nothing endures but change.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.