Fragments of Heraclitus

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(The sun is the width of a human foot.)

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Self-conceit [is] a falling sickness (epilepsy) and eyesight a lying sense.

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Men allow themselves to be deceived as Homer was, who yet was wiser than all the Greeks; for some boys killing lice deceived him saying, "What we see and catch we leave behind; what we neither see nor catch we take with us."

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ita vitalis calor a sole procedens omnibus quae vivunt vitam subministrat. cui sententiae Heraclitus adquiescens optimam similitudinem dat de aranea ad animam, de tela araneae ad corpus, sic(ut) aranea, ait, stans in medio telae sentit, quam cito musca aliquem filum suum corrumpit itaque illuc celeriter currit quasi de fili persectione dolens, sic hominis anima aliqua parte corporis laesa, illuc festine meat, quasi impatiens laesionis corporis, cui firme et proportionaliter iuncta est. [Hisdosus scholasticus, Commentary on the Timaeus, 17v.]

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(129) (Therefore Heraclitus rightly called them "atonements," since they are to make amends for evils and render the souls free from the dangers in generation.)

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(128) (Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, v. 15. I distinguish two kinds of sacrifices. First, those of men wholly purified, such as would rarely happen in the case of a single individual, as Heraclitus says, or of a certain very few men...)

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(A little better, then, Heraclitus has considered human opinions to be children's toys.)

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(Think too of him who forgets where the way leads.)

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(We ought not [behave] like children who learn from their parents.)

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(and according to Heraclitus rhetoric is the prince of liars.)

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(15) The eyes are more exact witnesses than ears.

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(Homer was an astronomer.)

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(109) It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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(107) Self-control is the highest virtue, and wisdom is to speak truth and consciously to act according to nature.

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To the soul, belongs the self-multiplying Logos.

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(106) It pertains to all men to know themselves and to learn self-control.

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(9) Debate.

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The fairest Cosmos is merely a rubbish-heap poured out at random.

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ὁ αὐτὸς πρὸς Αἰγυπτίους ἔφη· εἰ θεοί εἰσιν, ἵνα τί θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς; εἰ δὲ θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς, μηκέτι τούτους ἡγεῖσθε θεούς. [Fragment of a Greek Theosophist, 69.]

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ὅτι ὁ Ἡράκλειτος ὁρῶν τοὺς Ἕλληνας γέρα τοῖς δαίμοσιν ἀπονέμοντας εἶπεν· [Fragment of a Greek Theosophist, 74.]

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Fragments from other sources
Sources of fragments not in Burnet:

Αποσπάσματα (Ηράκλειτος) Fragments d’Héraclite Fragmenta (Heraclitus) Te mau pāpa’i tuha’a (Herakleitos)