Empedocles

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and…

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But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends…

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What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

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Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

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Earth's sweat, the sea.

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Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning…

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Each man believes only his experience.

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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

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Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

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Many fires burn below the surface.

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“No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating…

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At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each…

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The sea is the sweat of the earth.

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Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led…

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What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and…

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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a…

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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

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For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish…

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None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

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There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles…

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“God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. ”

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