Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out. — Heraclitus
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
In the original Greek
ἔλνθρωπος, ὅκως ἐν εὐφρόνῃ φάος, ἅπτεται ἀποσβέννυται.
480 BC
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Heraclitus. "On the Universe." Hippocrates, translated by W. H. S. Jones. Vol. 4, Harvard University Press, 1931, no. 77.
Original citation
Heraclitus. On the Universe. c. 500 BC, no. 77.
