Heraclitus · a new plain-English translation from the original language
B81. The arts of words they called cleavers — Timaeus among others, writing thus: so that Pythagoras appears not to be the inventor of the true cleavers, nor the man denounced by Heraclitus; rather it is Heraclitus himself who is the braggart.
B82. The most beautiful of apes is ugly set against the race of human beings.
B83. The wisest of human beings will appear an ape next to a god — in wisdom, in beauty, and in everything else.
B84. Changing, it rests. It is weariness to labor at the same things and to be ruled by them.
B85. It is hard to fight against anger: whatever it wants, it buys at the price of soul.
B86. Most of what is divine, according to Heraclitus, escapes recognition through unbelief.
B87. A dull man loves to be fluttered by every word.
B88. The same thing is in us living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old: these, having shifted, are those, and those, having shifted back, are these.
B89. Heraclitus says that for the waking there is one common world, but each of the sleeping turns aside into a private one.
B90. For fire all things trade themselves, and fire for all things — the way wares trade for gold and gold for wares.