I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Quote by Heraclitus

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little...

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little...

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

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

Character is destiny.

Character is destiny.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have...

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have...

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

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

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

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust...

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust...

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

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

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

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is...

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is...

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river...

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river...

The sun is new each day.

The sun is new each day.

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

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all...

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all...

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

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

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing...

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing...

You cannot step into the same river twice.

You cannot step into the same river twice.