*The thinking faculty is common to all
*Of the Logos, which is as I describe it, men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, men are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what They do when asleep.
* Therefore it is necessary to follow the common; but although the Logos is common the many live as though they had a private understanding.
* Listening not to me but to the Logos, it is wise to agree that all things are one.
*The things of which there is seeing and hearing and perception, these I prefer.
*Sun will not overstep his measures; else Erinyes, Justice’s ministers, will find him out.
* In the same river we both step and do not step, we are and are not.
*It is not possible to step twice into the same river.
*Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow.
*Sea is the most pure and polluted water; for fish it is drinkable and salutary; but for man undrinkable and perilous.
*Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest.
*What is in opposition is in concert, and from what differs comes the most beautiful harmony.
* War is the father of all, the king of all; and some he shows as gods, some as men; some he makes slaves, some free.
* One must know that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things happen by strife and necessity.
* For souls it is death to become water, for water death to become earth, from earth water comes-to-be and from water soul
* Immortals are mortal, mortals immortal; each lives the death of the other and dies their life.
* After death things await men, which they do not expect or imagine.
* Time is a child playing a game of droughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.
* They purify themselves by staining themselves with other blood, as if one stepped into mud to wash off mud. But a man would be thought mad if one of his fellow men saw him do that. Also they talk to statues as one might talk with houses, in ignorance of the nature of gods and heroes.
* The consecration of the mysteries, as practised among men, are unholy.
* To god all things are beautiful and good and just, but men have supposed some things to be unjust, some just .
* This cosmos (the same of all) none of gods or men made, but it always was and is and shall be; an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures.
* Asses prefer chaff to gold.
* Dogs bark at those whom they do not recognise.
* If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we should call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat.
* It is not good for men to obtain all they wish.
* Sane thinking is the greatest virtue, and wisdom is speaking the truth and acting according to nature, paying heed.
* All men are granted what is needed for knowing oneself and sane thinking.
* A dry soul is wisest and best.
* A man when he is drunk is led by an unfledged boy, stumbling and not knowing where he goes, having his soul moist.
* I sought myself.
*If one doesn’t expect the unexpected one will not find it, for it is not reached by search or trail.
* Character is man’s fate.
* Nature loves hiding
* The lord whose oracle is in Delphi neither speaks out nor conceals, but gives a sign.
Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher
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