65. I give a version of the fragments according to the arrangement of Mr. Bywater’s exemplary edition.[[330]]
(1) It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.[[331]] R. P. 40.
(2) Though this Word[[332]] 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. For, though all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, men seem as if they had no experience of them, when they make trial of words and deeds such as I set forth, dividing each thing according to its nature and showing how it truly is. But other men know not what they are doing when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep. R. P. 32.
(3) Fools when they do hear are like the deaf: of them does the saying bear witness that they are absent when present. R. P. 31 a.
(4) Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men if they have souls that understand not their language. R. P. 42.
(5) 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.
(6) Knowing not how to listen nor how to speak.
(7) If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.[[333]]
(8) Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little. R. P. 44 b.