Fighting your own desire is hard. It pays with your soul.
Heraclitus, Fragment 105-107
Fighting your own desire is hard. It pays with your soul.
Heraclitus, Fragment 105-107
The source
"Fighting your own desire is hard. It pays with your soul." Heraclitus said it in Fragment 105-107. Translated by John Burnet, 1920.
"It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul"John Burnet, 1920, Fragment 105-107.
Who said it
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Philosopher of Ephesus who taught that everything flows. Only fragments of his book survive.
Questions
- Who said "Fighting your own desire is hard. It pays with your soul."?
- Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Source: Fragment 105-107.
- What is the original wording?
- It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul (John Burnet, 1920). Translated by John Burnet, 1920.
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