"It is difficult to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul."
— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
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Date
c. 501 B.C.
Metaphor
"It is difficult to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul."
Metaphor in Context
θυμῷ μάχεσθαι χαλεπόν· ὃ γὰρ ἂν θέλῃ, ψυχῆς ὠνεῖται
[It is difficult to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.]
(DK B85)
[It is difficult to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.]
(DK B85)
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Provenance
Browsing Randy Hoyt's website, from which the unicode Greek is drawn.
Citation
Heraclitus, Fragments Trans T. M. Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
Date of Entry
05/17/2011
