Heraclitus: Quotes about men

Heraclitus is pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.”

Heraclitus

Men , God , War

“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”

Heraclitus

As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)

Love , Wisdom , Men

“For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.”

Heraclitus

G.T.W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm
Variant: For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Men , Understanding , Sense , Teachers

“Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.”

Heraclitus

Fragment 93
Friedrich Nietzsche's translation: The law under which most of them ceaselessly have commerce they reject for themselves. (The Pre-Platonic Philosophers, Chapter 10)]
Numbered fragments

Men , Universe

“War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.”

Heraclitus

G. T. W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm

Men , God , War

“Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters… We are lucky to have them… They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior… and He will bring the others back.”

Heraclitus

Attributed to "Hericletus c. 500 B.C." [sic] in The Tactical Rifle https://books.google.com/books?id=xO7XAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22They+make+the+battle.+Ah+but+the+One%2C+One+of+them+is+a+Warrior%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22He+will+bring+the+others+back%22 (1999) by Gabriel Suarez; no earlier source has been found.
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