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How can you hide from what never sets?

Heraclitus, Fragment B16 (Diels-Kranz)

The source

"How can you hide from what never sets?" Heraclitus said it in Fragment B16 (Diels-Kranz). Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.

"τὸ μὴ δῦνόν ποτε πῶς ἄν τις λάθοι;"

Original Greek, Fragment B16 (Diels-Kranz). Greek: Diels-Kranz fragment text via el.wikisource.

Who said it

Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Philosopher of Ephesus who taught that everything flows. Only fragments of his book survive.

Questions

Who said "How can you hide from what never sets?"?
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Source: Fragment B16 (Diels-Kranz).
What is the original Greek?
τὸ μὴ δῦνόν ποτε πῶς ἄν τις λάθοι;. Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.

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