SAMPLE FRAGMENTS

ANAXIMANDER OF MILÊTUS
The Non-Limited is the original material of existing things; further, the source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction, according to necessity; for they give justice and make reparation to one another for their injustice, according to the arrangement of Time.

This (essential nature, whatever it is, of the Non-Limited) is everlasting and ageless.

(The Non-Limited) is immortal and indestructible.

Nozzle of the bellows.

(The Earth is like) a stone column.

ANAXIMENES OF MILÊTUS
(Paraphrase containing the word) Loose. (= rare).

As our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air surround the whole universe.
(The sun is broad) like a leaf.

Air is near to the incorporeal; and since we come into being by an efflux from this (air), it is bound to be both non-limited and rich so that it never fails.

HÊRACLEITUS OF EPHESUS
The sun is new each day.

If all existing things turned to smoke, the nose would be the discriminating organ.

That which is in opposition is in concert, and from things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.

Donkeys prefer chaff to gold.

Joints: whole and not whole, connected-separate, consonant-dissonant.

Every creature is driven to pasture with a blow.

Anhalation (vaporisation). Those who step into the same river have different waters flowing ever upon them. (Souls also are vaporised from what is wet).

(Freeman, Kathleen, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments. Harvard UP: 1985)