Nothing is constant except change

You cannot step twice into the same river.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river