Heraclitus on matters of the
soul,
moisture, and
enebriation:
42. You could not discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled by every path in order to do so; such is the depth of its meaning. (45)
43. Soul is the vaporization out of which everything else is composed; more-over it is the least corporeal of things and is in ceaseless flux, for the moving world can only be known by what is in motion. ( )
44. Souls are vaporized from what is moist. (12)
45. Soul has its own inner law of growth. (us)
46. A dry soul is wisest and best. (or) The best and wisest soul is a dry beam of light. (11~)
47. Souls take pleasure in becoming moist. (77)
48. A drunken man has to be led by a boy, whom he follows stumbling and not knowing whither he goes, for his soul is moist. (117)
49. It is death to souls to become water, and it is death to water to become earth. Conversely, water comes into existence out of earth, and souls out of water. (36)
50. Even the sacred barley drink separates when it is not stirred. (125)
51. It is hard to fight against impulsive desire; whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul. (85~)
52. It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. (110)
53. Although it is better to hide our ignorance, this is hard to do when we relax over wine. (95)
54. A foolish man is a-flutter at every word. (87)
55. Fools, although they hear, are like the deaf: To them the adage applies that when present they are absent. (34)
56. Bigotry is the sacred disease. (46)
57. Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they think they do. (17)
58. If all existing things were smoke, it is by smell that we would distinguish them. (7)
59. In Hades souls perceive by smelling. (98)
60. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than dung. (96)