“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)]
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