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Heraclitus : THE WORD IS COMMON

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48
The bow's name is life and its work is death.

54
Harmony invisible to visible superior.

57
And Hesiod is most men's teacher; it is him they know well to be aware of the most things, him, who didn't understand day and night; for they are one.

60
The way up down one and the same.

62
Immortals mortal, mortals immortal, living the death of those and having died the life of those.
 

64
All things thunder steers.
 

80
It needs be aware of the war being common and justice strife and everything becoming in accordance with strife and necessity.

48
τ οὖν τόξ ὄνομα βίος͵ ἔργον δὲ θάνατος.

 

54
ἁρμονίη ἀφανὴς φανερῆς κρείττων.

57
διδάσκαλος δὲ πλείστων Ἡσίοδος· τοῦτον ἐπίστανται πλεῖστα εἰδέναι͵ ὅστις ἡμέρην καὶ εὐφρόνην οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν· ἔστι γὰρ ἕν.

60
ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή.

62
ἀθάνατοι θνητοί͵ θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι͵ ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον͵ τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.
 

64
τὰ δὲ πάντα οἰακίζει κεραυνός.

80
εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ τὸν πόλεμον ἐόντα ξυνὸν καὶ δίκην ἔριν καὶ γινόμενα πάντα κατ΄ ἔριν καὶ χρεών.

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