Heraclitus 22 B 18 DK

In searching out the truth, be ready for the unexpected, for it is difficult to find, and puzzling when you find it.

Those who have not hope of the hopeless will never discover it, for it is unfathomable and there is no way leading to it.

Chi non spera l’insperabile, non lo scoprirà, perché è chiuso alla ricerca e ad esso non conduce nessuna strada.

Wer nicht auf das hofft, was nicht zu erhoffen ist, der wird es wohl nicht entdecken; denn es ist der Suche verschlossen, und dazu führt kein Weg.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is trackless and unexplored.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

If ones does not expect the unexpected one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and is difficult to compass.

He who does not search the unserchable will not find ways in what is trackless and unsolved.

Nisi speret, id quod est insperatum non inveniet, cum sit et inscrutabile, et nullus ad id pateat aditus. (Clemente Alessandrino)