Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.