CHAPTER III HERAKLEITOS OF EPHESOS · 2

(26) Fire in its advance will judge and convict[341] all things. R. P. 36 a.

(27) How can one hide from that which never sets?

(28) It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things. R. P. 35 b.

(29) The sun will not overstep his measures; if he does, the Erinyes, the handmaids of Justice, will find him out. R. P. 39.

(30) The limit of East and West is the Bear; and opposite the Bear is the boundary of bright Zeus.[342]

(31) If there were no sun it would be night, for all the other stars could do.[343]

(32) The sun is new every day.

(33) See above, Chap. I. p. 41, n. 62.

(34)... the seasons that bring all things.

(35) Hesiod is most men’s teacher. Men think he knew very many things, a man who did not know day or night! They are one.[344] R. P. 39 b.

(36) God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire,[345] when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each. R. P. 39 b.

150(37) If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.

(38) Souls smell in Hades. R. P. 46 d.

(39) Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moisted.

(40) It scatters and it gathers; it advances and retires.

(41, 42) You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. R. P. 33.

(43) Homer was wrong in saying: “Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!” He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away.[346]... R. P. 34 d.

(44) War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free. R. P. 34.

(45) Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions,[347] like that of the bow and the lyre. R. P. 34.

(46) It is the opposite which is good for us.[348]

(47) The hidden attunement is better than the open. R. P. 34.

(48) Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.

(49) Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

(50) The straight and the crooked path of the fuller’s comb is one and the same.

(51) Asses would rather have straw than gold. R. P. 31 a.

151(51a) Oxen are happy when they find bitter vetches to eat.[349] R. P. 48 b.

(52) The sea is the purest and the impurest water. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them; to men it is undrinkable and destructive. R. P. 47 c.

(53) Swine wash in the mire, and barnyard fowls in dust.

(54)... to delight in the mire.

(55) Every beast is driven to pasture with blows.[350]