Heraclitus fr. 44

 

 

“The people must fight for law just as they would for the walls”

 

 

μάχεσθαι χρὴ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου

ὅκωσπερ τείχεος.

 

Unusually lucid for the obscure philosopher