Quote #15
When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
More from Heraclitus
- Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
- Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
- The road up and the road down is one and the same.
- Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
- Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
- Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
- It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
- The people should fight for their law as if defending the city's wall.