Pleas eput each of the following quotes in quotations
Though this Word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all.
So we must follow the common, yet though my Word is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
The sun is the width of a human foot.
Oxen are happy when they find bitter vetches to eat.
They vainly purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, just as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash his feet in mud. Any man who marked him doing thus, would deem him mad.
And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk with a man’s house, knowing not what gods or heroes are.
The sun is new every day.
If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.
It is the opposite which is good for us.
Asses would rather have straw than gold.
Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.
Every beast is driven to pasture with blows.
You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.
… to delight in the mire.
Night-walkers, Magians, Bakchoi, Lenai, and the initiated …
The mysteries practised among men are unholy mysteries.
For if it were not to Dionysos that they made a procession and sang the shameful phallic hymn, they would be acting most shamelessly. But Hades is the same as Dionysos in whose honour they go mad and rave.
How can one hide from that which never sets?
The many do not take heed of such things as those they meet with, nor do they mark them when they are taught, though they think they do.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
Knowing not how to listen nor how to speak.
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.
All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep.
Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little.
Men would not have known the name of justice if these things were not.
Gods and men honour those who are slain in battle.
Greater deaths win greater portions.
Man kindles a light for himself in the night-time, when he has died but is alive. The sleeper, whose vision has been put out, lights up from the dead; he that is awake lights up from the sleeping.
There awaits men when they die such things as they look not for nor dream of.
The most esteemed of them knows but fancies, and holds fast to them, yet of a truth justice shall overtake the artificers of lies and the false witnesses.
For even the best of them choose one thing above all others, immortal glory among mortals, while most of them are glutted like beasts.
This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.
The transformations of Fire are, first of all, sea; and half of the sea is earth, half whirlwind.
It becomes liquid sea, and is measured by the same tale as before it became earth.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
And it is law, too, to obey the counsel of one.
Fools when they do hear are like the deaf: of them does the saying bear witness that they are absent when present.
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul.
Swine wash in the mire, and barnyard fowls in dust.
(Thales foretold an eclipse.)
In Priene lived Bias, son of Teutamas, who is of more account than the rest. (He said, “Most men are bad.”)
The learning of many things teacheth not understanding, else would it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hekataios.
Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.
Homer should be turned out of the lists and whipped, and Archilochos likewise.
Wantonness needs putting out, even more than a house on fire.
The people must fight for its law as for its walls.
You will not find the boundaries of soul by travelling in any direction, so deep is the measure of it.
Self-conceit is a falling sickness (epilepsy) and eyesight a lying sense.
Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.
The bow is called life but its work is death.
One is ten thousand to me, if he be the best.
We step and do not step into the same rivers; we are and are not.
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
Time is a child playing draughts, the kingly power is a child’s.
War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.
The hidden attunement is better than the open.
The things that can be seen, heard, and learned are what I prize the most.
Physicians who cut, burn, stab, and rack the sick, demand a fee for it which they do not deserve to get.
The way up and the way down is one and the same.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
In the circumference of a circle the beginning and end are common.
Self-control is the highest virtue, and wisdom is to speak truth and consciously to act according to nature.
Man’s character is his fate.