Heraclitus · a new plain-English translation from the original language
B112. Sound thinking is the greatest excellence; and wisdom is to speak what is true and to act according to nature, listening to it.
B113. Thinking is common to all.
B114. Those who would speak with mind must brace themselves on what all share, as a city braces on law — and far more strongly. For every human law draws its nourishment from the one law that is divine; that law prevails as far as it wishes, is sufficient for everything, and still overflows.
B115. To soul belongs a logos that increases itself.
B116. It belongs to all people to know themselves and to think soundly.
B117. A man, when he is drunk, is led along by a beardless boy, stumbling, not perceiving where he is going, having his soul wet.
B118. A dry gleam: soul wisest and best.
B119. Heraclitus said that character, for a human being, is fate.
B120. The Bear marks the bounds of morning and evening; and opposite the Bear stands the boundary-stone of Zeus of the clear sky.
B121. The Ephesians deserve, all the grown men of them, to hang themselves and hand the city over to the beardless — they who banished Hermodorus, the worthiest man they had, declaring: among us let there be no one worthiest; and if there is, let it be elsewhere, with other people.