[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.