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161 " You can not step into the same river twice. "
― Heraclitus
162 " The immortals are mortal, the mortals immortal, each living in the other's death and dying in the other's life. "
163 " What allows us to be human is something daemonic. "
164 " War, as father of all things, and king, names few to serve as gods, and of the rest makes these men slaves, those free. "
― Heraclitus , Fragments
165 " Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things. "
166 " It is better to conceal ignorance. "
167 " It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.τὰ δὲ πάντα οἰακίζει Κεραυνός "
168 " Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life "
169 " All is war. "
170 " That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god nor man, replenishes in measure as it burns away. "
171 " Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not. "
172 " For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. "
173 " إن الحمير لتفضل القش علي الذهب "
174 " When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn. "
175 " Any day standsequal to the rest. "
176 " One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverseevery road so deep a measure does it possess "
177 " Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life. "
178 " If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them. "
179 " A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas "
180 " Everything flows, nothing remains "