(41, 42) You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. R. P. 33.
(43) Homer was wrong in saying: “Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!” He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away.[[346]]... R. P. 34 d.
(44) 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. R. P. 34.
(45) Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions,[[347]] like that of the bow and the lyre. R. P. 34.
(46) It is the opposite which is good for us.[[348]]
(47) The hidden attunement is better than the open. R. P. 34.
(48) Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.
(49) Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
(50) The straight and the crooked path of the fuller’s comb is one and the same.