Heraclitus · a new plain-English translation from the original language
B71. Remember, too, the one who forgets where the road leads.
B72. The logos with which they most continually keep company — the one that manages the whole — from this they are at variance; and the things they meet every day appear foreign to them.
B73. We must not act and speak like people asleep — for then, too, we seem to act and speak.
B74. We must not act like children of our parents — that is, put plainly: in the way we have received by tradition.
B75. Sleepers are workers, and fellow-workers in what comes to pass in the world.
B76. The death of fire is birth for air, and the death of air is birth for water.
B77. Whence Heraclitus said that for souls it is delight — or death — to become moist; and delight, for them, is the fall into becoming. And elsewhere he said that we live the death of those souls, and they live our death.
B78. Human character does not hold right judgments; divine character does.
B79. A man is called infant by a divinity the way a boy is by a man.
B80. One must know that war is common, and justice is strife, and all things come to pass through strife and necessity.