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Heraclitus535–470 BC

Heraclitus on hope

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Fragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105

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