Give thyself time to learn something new and good. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 2.
Image: Heraclitus by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, courtesy of the museum and Wikimedia Commons.
Note: The two philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, following the way initiated by pre-Socratic Greek philosophers like Pythagoras, departed from mythology and began the metaphysical tradition that strongly influenced Plato.
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