There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
“No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
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