(36) God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire,[345] when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each. R. P. 39 b. (37) If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them. (38) Souls smell in Hades. R. P. 46 d. (39) Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moisted. (40) It scatters and it gathers; it advances and retires. (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. (51) Asses would rather have straw than gold. R. P. 31 a. (51_a_) Oxen are happy when they find bitter vetches to eat.[349] R. P. 48 b. (52) The sea is the purest and the impurest water. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them; to men it is undrinkable and destructive. R. P. 47 c. (53) Swine wash in the mire, and barnyard fowls in dust. (54) ... to delight in the mire. (55) Every beast is driven to pasture with blows.[350] (56) Same as 45. (57) Good and ill are one. R. P. 47 c. (58) Physicians who cut, burn, stab, and rack the sick, demand a fee for it which they do not deserve to get. R. P. 47 c.[351] (59) Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.[352] (60) Men would not have known the name of justice if these things were not.[353] (61) To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right. R. P. 45. (62) We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being and pass away (?) through strife. (64) All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep. R. P. 42 c.[354] (65) The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. R. P. 40.