HELLENIC WIZDOM BY HERACLETOS

EDUCATION IS ANOTHER SUN

EVERYTHING FLOWS

NATURE LIKETH TO HIDE

WHERE IS THEIR MIND OR THEIR LOGIC? THEY GET PERSUADED BY THE SINGERS AND THEY TAKE THE MASS-MEN FOR THEIR TEACHER, FORGETTING THAT "THE MANY ARE BAD AND THE GOOD ARE FEW".

FOR ME ONE MAN IS A MILLION, IF HE IS ARISTOS.

PLEASURE IS DIFFERENT FOR THE HORSE, FOR THE DOG AND FOR MAN: DONKEYS WOULD PREFER GRASS TO GOLD; FOR THEM FOOD IS MORE PLEASANT THAN GOLD.

PIGS WASH IN THE DUMP, BIRDS IN THE DUST OR ASH.

ARISTOS MUST NOT ENJOY IT IN THE SWAMP. PIGS ENJOY IT MORE IN THE SWAMP THAN IN THE CLEAN WATER.

IF HAPPINESS CAME FROM CARNAL PLEASURES, WE WOULD SAY THAT THE COWS ARE HAPPY WHEN THEY FIND GRASS.

ARISTOI PREFER ONE OVER ALL: THE ETERNAL GLORY. THE MAJORITY GETETH CONTENT OF HEDONES (CARNAL PLEASURES) LIKE BEASTS DO.

WHOEVER ASKETH FOR GOLD DIGETH A LOT AND FINDETH A LITTLE.

THOU DOMINATEST THE REPTILE ONLY BY SMASHING IT.
(AYETHING THAT CRAWLETH IS GOVERNED BY GETTING HARMED)

WAR, FATHER OF ALL AND OF ALL KING. HE SHOWDETH THE GODS, AND HE SHOWDETH THE MEN. HE MADETH THE SLAVES AND HE MADETH THE FREE.

ON THE CYCLE'S CIRCUMFERENCE, START AND END COINCIDE.

EVERYTHING IS GOVERNED BY THE THUNDER. FIRE WILL COME AGAIN, TO DOMINATE AND JUDGE EVERYTHING.

IF THOU HOPEST NOT, THOU WILT NOT FIND THE HOPELESS, WHICH IS UNSEARCHED AND UNAPPROACHED.

THE LORD, WHOSE ORACLE IS IN DELPHI, NEITHER SAYETH NOR HIDETH, BUT MEANETH.
(SPEAKING ABOUT GOD APOLLON)

THE WAY UP AND THE WAY DOWN IS ONE AND THE SAME.

THE NAME OF THE BOW IS LIFE, BUT ITS WORK IS DEATH.

FOR THE SOULS DEATH IS TO BECOME WATER, FOR WATER DEATH IS TO BECOME EARTH. FROM EARTH WATER IS BORN AND FROM WATER SOUL.

THIS WORLD, FOR ALL COMMON, NEITHER SOME MAN NOR GOD CREATEDETH, BUT IT WAS FOR EVER, IT IS AND WILL BE FIRE EVER-ALIVE, SWITCHING ON AND OFF PERIODICALLY.

THINGS AWAIT THE DEAD ONES, THAT THEY NEITHER HOPE NOR IMAGINE.

THIS IS WIZDOM: TO CONCEIVE THE THOUGHT THAT GOVERNETH EVERYTHING THROUGH EVERYTHING.
(UNIVERSAL MIND)

I ASKED FOR MINSELF

IT IS MORE URGENT TO EXTINGUISH HYBRIS (ARROGANCE) THAN FIRE.

CITIZENS MUST FIGHT FOR NOMOS (UNIVERSAL LAW) LIKE THEY FIGHT FOR THEIR CITY-WALLS.

CORPSES ARE MORE USELESS THAN DIRT

DOGS BARK AT THE UNKNOWN

SICKNESS MAKETH HEALTH A GOOD THING, HUNGER CONTENTION AND EXHAUSTION REST.

GODS AND MEN HONOUR THE ONES WHO DIED IN BATTLE

EITH YE NEVER LACK THE WEALTH, OH EPHESIANS, SO YOUR CUNNINGNESS BE EVER OBVIOUS.