Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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

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

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.